Modern Quotes

It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling!

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

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 of a religious solution.

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.