Modern Quotes

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.