Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.