The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Votes: 4
C. S. LewisPresent-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. Votes: 3
John R. RiceModern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheModern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents. Votes: 3
Alex PareeneModern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Votes: 3
Thomas YellowtailModern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst. Votes: 3
Orrin WoodwardModern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. Votes: 3
Frank ZappaModern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before. Votes: 3
Lesslie NewbiginModern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. Votes: 3
Paul BertModern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 3
Bryant McGillModern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. Votes: 3
Earl WilsonModern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era. Votes: 3
Charlotte GersonModern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. Votes: 3
Rama SwamiModern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. Votes: 3
Alfred W. CrosbyModern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature. Votes: 3
Alexander LudwigModern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. Votes: 3
William JamesModern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. Votes: 3
Neil deGrasse TysonModern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Votes: 3
Jill LeporeModern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. Votes: 3
Vera BrittainModern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. Votes: 3
Robert L. MilletModern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. Votes: 3
Michael LeunigModern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. Votes: 3
Freddie MercuryModern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. Votes: 3
Alain RobertModern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. Votes: 3
Frank A. ClarkAll Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. Votes: 3
Will CuppyModern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. Votes: 3
Martha GrahamI gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family. Votes: 3
Sarah HylandModern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. Votes: 3
W. S. MerwinI gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.' Votes: 3
Sarah HylandOne of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' Votes: 2
Norman Ralph AugustineIn brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. Votes: 2
John Buchanan RobinsonThe strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. Votes: 2
Jackson PollockWe think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. Votes: 2
Larry EllisonThe real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Votes: 2
Ezra PoundLarge motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. Votes: 0
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of BlackburnThe modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Votes: 0
Barry CommonerThe modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. Votes: 0
Joseph A. SchumpeterPhilosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenIn modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. Votes: 0
Dave BarryFinancial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. Votes: 0
Andrew LoFilm, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0
David StrathairnThe curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Votes: 0
Horace WalpoleThe modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. Votes: 0
J. Michael BishopAuntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened. Votes: 0
Anne F. BeilerOptimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Votes: 0
Cyril ConnollySpiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy. Votes: 0
Ted MallochThe tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. Votes: 0
Anthony DanielsThe course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerWere modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights? Votes: 0
Helen McCloyYou can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonTwentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Votes: 0
Helen VendlerThe limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. Votes: 0
Nicholas Murray ButlerPosterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. Votes: 0
Louis PasteurThe modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. Votes: 0
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghI am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. Votes: 0
Alexander LebedevI think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. Votes: 0
Jeane KirkpatrickIn the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. Votes: 0
Nouriel RoubiniOur modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Votes: 0
Alfred AdlerThe speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily. Votes: 0
Markus PerssonPrimitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanThe problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people. Votes: 0
William GreiderThe disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Votes: 0
Franz BoasMachinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society. Votes: 0
Raymond LoewyNobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. Votes: 0
Kenneth AngerThe modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonEducation is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival. Votes: 0
John M. PerkinsMany novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonBelievers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. Votes: 0
Bruce R. McConkieThe Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent. Votes: 0
Katya ChammaSex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists. Votes: 0
George F. WillThe most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. Votes: 0
George F. WillThe untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiKnitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again. Votes: 0
Olivier TheyskensI've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. Votes: 0
David S. GoyerThe vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. Votes: 0
Morarji DesaiThe theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. Votes: 0
J. Robert OppenheimerAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. Votes: 0
Albert CamusWhat if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? Votes: 0
Dillon BurroughsNo one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. Votes: 0
Stacy SchiffOur modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. Votes: 0
Clint EastwoodFlight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. Votes: 0
James DickeyThe modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. Votes: 0
Harry ReidI have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. Votes: 0
Martin E. MartyAs far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. Votes: 0
Paul McCartneyA modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them. Votes: 0
Thabo MbekiThe printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. Votes: 0
T. E. LawrenceIf science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinHOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonThe Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoI don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. Votes: 0
Emmanuel JalFrom Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Votes: 0
Saul BellowThe failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulThe worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall. Votes: 0
Nicholas NegroponteIt is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. Votes: 0
Oscar Hammerstein III'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role. Votes: 0
Janet MontgomeryThe newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThe fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. Votes: 0
Laurie ColwinWithout the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsThe real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. Votes: 0
Nancy GibbsBy now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriA nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. Votes: 0
Frank WhittleThere is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyThe aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. Votes: 0
Jacques EllulToday we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C. Votes: 0
Malcolm XI don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. Votes: 0
Shelby LynneI enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. Votes: 0
Deborah BullThere's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. Votes: 0
Lenny KravitzFor the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. Votes: 0
Leigh HuntIf you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonWhen modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. Votes: 0
Howard NemerovOne of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut. Votes: 0
Evelyn LauderMystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchI think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. Votes: 0
John EatonIf modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. Votes: 0
Herbert ReadThe modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceChristianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonI believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women. Votes: 0
Katie CassidyOther Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. Votes: 0
Smiley BlantonThere is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltThe Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. Votes: 0
Stephen GardinerThe Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. Votes: 0
Harold InnisSAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. Votes: 0
Diana Wynne JonesThe modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. Votes: 0
Robert EnglundTo be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Votes: 0
Anthony BurgessI do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. Votes: 0
Kiran DesaiKitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. Votes: 0
Mike CurranI really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern. Votes: 0
Kierston Wareingmodern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. Votes: 0
Mark KurlanskyI lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsOur modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone. Votes: 0
Johnny DeppNo one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowA modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. Votes: 0
M. Stanton EvansOur social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. Votes: 0
Clay ShirkyThere is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. Votes: 0
Robert GlasperI see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. Votes: 0
Brendan CoyleBeta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerI don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer! Votes: 0
Elmore LeonardI find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history. Votes: 0
George BancroftE-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate. Votes: 0
Anne FadimanNo matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Votes: 0
Helena Bonham CarterA good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. Votes: 0
Jools HollandThat was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool Votes: 0
Li PengYou have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game. Votes: 0
Jamie RedknappA modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradAs a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity. Votes: 0
Frank OceanA modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
Walter GropiusThe history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
Andrew HoberekNormally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.
Guillermo del ToroI prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.
Henry CavillIn general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
Herbert ReadAds represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Marshall McLuhanIndia is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!
Narendra ModiIf comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.
Reginald HudlinI can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
Willie MorrisWe betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
Os GuinnessThe advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Aldous HuxleyThe modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Coventry PatmoreThe dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
Helen RowlandIdeal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
Moses Finleystarvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
Pearl S. BuckSeek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.
Robert S. de RoppWhat it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
Roger Wolcott SperryI think in a lot of modern action movies, it's hard to see what's going on. Shaky cam...
Tommy WirkolaThe weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world
Aiden Wilson TozerModern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
Allen CarrI like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
Bethany CosentinoVery few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
C. S. LewisThe truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Clarence DarrowThe great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
Italo SvevoThe equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
Jacques MaritainWriting" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
Lawrence LessigThe greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
Shawn AchorThe Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.
Thomas de MaiziereModern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
Desiderius ErasmusModern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Ernest HemingwayThe modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges BernanosCertainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
Stanley KunitzEducation which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
Alfred North WhiteheadBy all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
Charles SpurgeonIs it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
Edward JenksI think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.
Jennifer LopezThe great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
John FowlesModern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord DunsanySome ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
Mehmet Murat ildanEverything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
Susan SontagThe modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
Arthur HoneggerThe morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Bertrand RussellSubtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
Charles Caleb ColtonConnectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
Iqbal QuadirVictimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
Laura SchlessingerTo be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Mason CooleyFour times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodFour times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.
Rush LimbaughParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Sinclair LewisThe tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.
Jacques MaritainEverything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
Jose ArguellesModern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le CorbusierI don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.
Mat McNerneyModern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
Michel ChossudovskyHappy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
Patience StrongYou can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman RushdieDo not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Salvador DaliI'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
Sylvester StalloneModern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..
Twyla TharpGentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
George Bernard ShawRussel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
George NelsonThe church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.
Hans ConzelmannIt was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Jessica LangeStill very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart
John Walter BrattonAlthough he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
Nicholas EberstadtModern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.
Ross PerotCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Sinclair LewisEvery time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Viktor KorchnoiBeijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
Ai WeiweiI think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
Anne RoipheA reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
George AlagiahGrowth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
Herman E. DalyNo modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
Irving KristolPeople remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
J. R. R. TolkienThe idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
Pankaj MishraTurning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.
Pete TownshendNationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
Reinhold NiebuhrTo be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
Sylvain TessonTo talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.
Taner EdisI'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder
Thomas ArmstrongSchopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
Oscar WildeAll significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
Carl SchmittGod is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
Caryll HouselanderAll the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
David AttenboroughThe subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
Edward RuschaDonald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.
Hillary ClintonA handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana AlexanderTo be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Vine Deloria Jr.The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell WillkieThe best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Oscar WildeI was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
Adam SandlerThe challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
Alain de BottonYou do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.
Gail CarrigerFew realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
Ivars PetersonModern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Elwyn MitchellIt's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Susan SontagTo the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
Walter PaterUnder his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Andre BretonThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C. S. LewisBe versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
ConfuciusIn modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
D. James KennedyThe most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
Dick MorrisHow can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
Hans RookmaakerIn modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
Rebecca MacKinnonYou'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.
Sherrilyn KenyonSo much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
William J. ClintonTo elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
Oscar WildeThe calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
David BerlinskiBefore modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
G. M. TrevelyanA great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSome people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
James MacArthurGod has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
Mark E. PetersenThe wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.
P. J. O'RourkeThat is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Paula RegoI am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
Shelley WintersI've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
Alan BishopThe Europeans who went to Africa came back with âmodern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
Duke EllingtonIn order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
Evan SayetI don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
George MichaelWe are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
Howard DeanThe modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien BendaModern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheProgressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. Votes: 3 Keith Ellison
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. Votes: 4 Charles Jencks
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. Votes: 4 Charles Baudelaire
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life. Votes: 3 Aly Khan
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal. Votes: 4 James E. Faust
Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture! Votes: 2 Theophilus London
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. Votes: 4 Twyla Tharp
I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me. Votes: 3 Theo Rossi
It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. Votes: 3 Jil Sander
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.' Votes: 3 Tony Kushner
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test. Votes: 3 Charlotte Mason
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. Votes: 4 Bill Toomey
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. Votes: 4 Sofia Vergara
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans. Votes: 3 Franz Beckenbauer
In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History. Votes: 3 Herbert Adams Gibbons
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. Votes: 3 Emmet Fox
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. Votes: 4 A. N. Wilson
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. Votes: 4 Harold Pinter
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. Votes: 3 Frank A. Clark
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. Votes: 5 Prince Charles
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. Votes: 4 Alan Vega
Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. Votes: 3 Iqbal Quadir
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. Votes: 2 Joseph de Maistre
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Votes: 3 Arthur Eddington
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. Votes: 3 Gilbert K. Chesterton
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Votes: 4 Emmeline Pankhurst
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Votes: 3 Carl Jung
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone. Votes: 3 Alain de Botton
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. Votes: 2 Lewis Mumford
I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue. Votes: 3 Barack Obama
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Votes: 4 Vince Lombardi
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 4 Jacques Ellul
The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own. Votes: 3 Karen Armstrong
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. Votes: 4 Elton John
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. Votes: 3 Chloe Grace Moretz
I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. Votes: 6 Chloe Grace Moretz
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible. Votes: 2 Lorraine Toussaint
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World. Votes: 3 Eliezer Yudkowsky
The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism. Votes: 2 Chiwetel Ejiofor