Modern Quotes - page 4

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology. (Don DeLillo)
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. View quote
Terry Eagleton
In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. View quote
Albert Camus
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. View quote
Gregory Benford
The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within. (Jackson Pollock)
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. View quote
John Steinbeck
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. View quote
Harold Pinter
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. View quote
Clarence Darrow
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. View quote
George Steiner
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. View quote
Octavio Paz
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace. View quote
Milton Friedman
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. View quote
Vince Lombardi
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. View quote
Franz Boas
London is a modern Babylon. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. View quote
Edward Abbey