Modern Quotes - Page 12

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

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

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.