Modern Quotes

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

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

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.