Modern Quotes - Page 4

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

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

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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