Modern Quotes

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

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.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

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.

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.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

If you love something, set it free.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

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

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.