Modern Quotes

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.