Modern Quotes - Page 5

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

We are the modern day gladiators.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.