Modern Quotes - page 3

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. (Egon Schiele)
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. View quote
Francis Crick
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. View quote
Thomas Paine
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. View quote
Freddie Mercury
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. View quote
John Ruskin
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. View quote
Margaret Mead
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. View quote
Gary Becker
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. (Ambrose Bierce)
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. View quote
Michio Kushi
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. View quote
Anthony Burgess
The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. View quote
Morarji Desai
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. View quote
Edith Sitwell
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. View quote
Mary McCarthy
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. View quote
Norman Angell
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. (Oscar Wilde)
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde