Modern Quotes

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.