Modern Quotes

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

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

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

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

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

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

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

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

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

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 machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

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.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

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

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

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.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

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

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Modern morality is all about perception.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

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.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.