Modern Quotes

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. (Václav Havel)
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. View quote
Ivan Illich
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. View quote
Norman Mailer
The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. View quote
Edith Wharton
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. (Tom Stoppard)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. View quote
Erich Fromm
Modern poets put a lot of water into their ink. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander... View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. (Walter Raleigh)
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. View quote
Kiran Desai
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway