Modern Quotes - Page 14

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Modernization means Westernization.

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

London is a modern Babylon.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

Greed has no boundaries

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!