Modern Quotes

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Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

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.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

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.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

If you love something, set it free.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world