Modern Quotes · Page 213

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

— Swami Vivekananda

A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit.

— Brad Goreski

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for…

— Graham Greene

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just…

— Rob Zombie

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and…

— J. William Fulbright

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

— Bear Grylls

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather…

— Robertson Davies

Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that…

— Bassam Tibi

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can…

— Ian Mckellen

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,…

— John le Carre

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

— James David Barber

There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who…

— Albert Schweitzer

Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies…

— Dave Barry

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging…

— Marina Warner

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

— Maynard Webb

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of…

— Richard M. Nixon

As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and…

— Bernard Herrmann

Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have…

— Pope Francis

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you…

— Michael Beschloss

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're…

— Bernie Sanders