Modern times Quotes

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

— Guillermo del Toro

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

— Horace Walpole

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

— Benjamin Disraeli

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

— Chris Matthews

“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Only expectation has value as currency,”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Randal Marlin

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

— Norman Ralph Augustine

“It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the…

— Joy Harjo

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

— Nirmala Srivastava

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone…

— George VI

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

— Julian Assange

I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in…

— Zack Snyder

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“modern times, of course, political ideologies have taken over the numinous function, with the face of the leader multiplied on a thousand…

— Erik H. Erikson

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

— Pearl S. Buck

“The Christians’ “exaggerated fear of sex” continued until modern times, whereas Islamdom remained more sex-friendly until, again, modern times. Even the more…

— Mustafa Akyol

“I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they…

— Elihu Root

The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were…

— Robert James Waller

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough,…

— Jean Jaures

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination…

— Philippe Aries

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare buildings…

— Oscar Wilde

“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is true that technical progress in modern times has linked men together like a complex nervous system. The means of travel…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the…

— William Howard Taft

“She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound…

— Terry Pratchett

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,…

— S. S. Van Dine

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

— Miuccia Prada

I was told a moving wedding dress story(www.pandadress.com/wedding-story.html) today told by my neighbor. She was about 80 years old now. Her hair…

— Cocosoup

“The troubadours did give us a particular myth of “true” love--the idea that real love burns brightly and passionately, and then it…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The Mass is not only a relative (commemorative) sacrifice, but likewise an absolute sacrifice, and hence the Eucharistic Victim in the Consecration…

— Joseph Pohle

“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.…

— Wendell Berry

“The peculiar, withdrawn attitude of the philosopher, world denying, hostile to life, suspicious of the senses, freed from sensuality, which has been…

— Nietzsche

“Ideas should be freely and dispassionately considered on their own merits, since after all, one generation’s heretic is another generation’s hero. Mystics…

— Shmuel Pernicone

“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,…

— Thomas Paine

“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the…

— Terence McKenna