Modern Quotes · Page 31

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

— Jacques Ellul

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

— John Buchanan Robinson

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

— Robert Penn Warren

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

— Wes Borland

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

— Matthew Arnold

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

— Erma Bombeck

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

— Steve Ilg

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not…

— Katy Perry

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be…

— John le Carre

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

— Duke Ellington

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

— Robert James Waller

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they…

— Rakim

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed,…

— Charlton Heston

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of…

— Lewis B. Smedes

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed…

— Jeremy Jackson

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we…

— James C. Collins

A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess…

— Alexander Morozevich

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But…

— David Berlinski

HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh,…

— Rick Riordan

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly.…

— Robert Lanza

Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Maybe nothing is art”, maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did…

— Miuccia Prada

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to…

— Simin Behbahani

The Bible is an ancient text from an ancient context. We live thousands of miles and thousands of years away from that…

— Randall Price

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it…

— Michel Houellebecq

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey…

— Sarah Vowell

I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people…

— Abigail Tarttelin

I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you…

— Cassandra Clare

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

— J. Michael Bishop

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

— Norman Lamm

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.

— Ram Gopal Varma

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

— Amy Vanderbilt

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

— Terry Pratchett

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

— Todd Young