Modern Quotes - Page 9

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

You are born modern, you do not become so.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.