Modern Quotes

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Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses, — Pope Paul VI
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it… — Ralph Linton
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are… — Washington Irving
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity. — Frank Ocean
Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world. — James Packer
The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is… — Ghada al-Samman
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. — Michel Chossudovsky
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of… — Elwyn Brooks White
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who… — Tony Visconti
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin
Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us. — Henri Matisse
Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper… — Tony Buzan
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists… — P.J. O'Rourke
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. — Christian Lous Lange
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity… — Christian Lous Lange
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology… — Albert Speer
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. — Alain Robert
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It… — Hamlin Garland

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