Modern Quotes - Page 3

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.