Modern Quotes

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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in… — Grover Norquist
All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national… — J M Coetzee
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… — Susan Sontag
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — Unknown Author
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions… — Raoul Vaneigem
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear… — Bernard de Mandeville
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time,… — Joseph McCarthy
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. — Edward Abbey
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern… — Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used… — Adam Duritz
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the… — Margaret Sanger
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but… — Charles Lamb
The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the… — Helmut Kohl
The self is the modern substitute for the soul. — Allan Bloom
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and… — Karl Marx
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt

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