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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders  (Modern Quotes) Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find  (Modern Quotes) Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid  (Modern Quotes) I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated  (Modern Quotes) In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, nietzshean dogma influenced each of them  (Modern Quotes) There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation  (Modern Quotes) The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which  (Modern Quotes) The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot - hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism  (Modern Quotes) Land: A part of the Earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure  (Modern Quotes) Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato  (Modern Quotes) 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  (Modern Quotes) You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself  (Modern Quotes) Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man  (Modern Quotes) Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship  (Modern Quotes) Academe, n. : An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n. : A modern school where football is taught  (Modern Quotes) 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  (Modern Quotes) Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century  (Modern Quotes) The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf  (Modern Quotes) A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel  (Modern Quotes) It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed  (Modern Quotes) Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide open, tall ceilinged, super reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen  (Modern Quotes) And then, the justice; in fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, with eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances, and so he plays his part  (Modern Quotes) In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing  (Modern Quotes) I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China  (Modern Quotes) To vouch this is no proof without more certain and more overt tests than these thin habits and poor likelihoods of modern seeming do prefer against him  (Modern Quotes) Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market  (Modern Quotes) I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed  (Modern Quotes) Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs  (Modern Quotes) You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion  (Modern Quotes) One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse  (Modern Quotes)
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