Modern Quotes

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In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was… — Robert Aickman
I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate… — Jim Crace
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like… — Andy Warhol
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains,… — Andy Warhol
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. — Banksy
But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer… — Hilaire Belloc
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It… — Lawrence Lessig
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. .… — Unknown Author
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one… — T. Colin Campbell
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C.S. Lewis
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C.S. Lewis
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that… — C.S. Lewis
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness… — Reinhold Niebuhr
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played — Arnold Schoenberg
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope. — Howard Dean
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.… — William Lane Craig
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at… — Louis Pasteur
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need… — Christopher Dawson
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively… — Christopher Dawson
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree… — E F Schumacher
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means… — Pope Paul VI

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