Modern Quotes

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

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.

Most modern comedy is crap.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

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.