Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. — Sharon Begley
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general… — David Cassidy
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic… — Unknown Author
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the… — Tim Soutphommasane
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the… — Larry Dossey
In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and… — Unknown Author
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom… — Margarita Engle
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds. — Unknown Author
After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I… — Dermot Mulroney
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes… — David Loy
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn… — Unknown Author
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as… — Unknown Author
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. — Richard Florida
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world. — Ronald Reagan
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the… — Ulysses S. Grant
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern… — Jose Mourinho
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record… — Eddie Vedder

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