Modern Quotes

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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of… — Douglas MacArthur
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. — Murray Rothbard
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms... — Simone Weil
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places… — Wendell Willkie
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity… — Dalai Lama
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in… — George Bernard Shaw
Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. — Iqbal Quadir
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass… — Dave Barry
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. — Laurence J. Peter
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and… — John F. Kennedy
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. — Ambrose Bierce
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is… — George Polya
With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy… — Neil L. Andersen
I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of… — Chris Colfer
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. — Pope John Paul II

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