Modern Quotes · Page 19

CRT teaches that our modern society is fundamentally wrong and that it must be resisted.

— Michael Waltz

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Aldous Huxley

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

— Anonymous

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

— Guillermo del Toro

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

— Helen Rowland

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

— John Stott

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

— Howard Zinn

The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book…

— Morgan Philpot

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with…

— John Gimlette

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

— Rush Limbaugh

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern…

— David Batstone

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in…

— Anonymous

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what…

— Helene Deutsch

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told…

— Kele Okereke

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness…

— Michael Leunig

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes…

— Theodor Herzl

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was…

— Jay Michaelson

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely…

— Carl L. Becker

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products…

— Anita Roddick

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood…

— Joanna Lumley

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed…

— Stephen Mansfield

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal…

— Gaetano Mosca

Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a…

— Karen Kain

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been…

— John Steinbeck

Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote…

— James Morcan

The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

I've been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called…

— Chris Hayes

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think…

— Richard R. Nelson

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

— Kenneth Anger

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

“In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many”

— Idiotneil

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.

— Al Murray

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

— Randal Marlin

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

— Charlie Munger