Modern Quotes - Page 7

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

The classic literature is always modern.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

I am the very model of a modern major general

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.