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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. — James D. Watkins

Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. — Leonard Maltin

It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant — John M. Poothullil

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. — D.H. Lawrence

Modern man is sick because he is not whole. — Carl Jung

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary. — Will Carling

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab
which is typical
and not just of modern life — Frank O'Hara

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. — Nancy Gibbs

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. — Adam Rapp

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture. — Salman Khurshid

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time. — Charles Petzold

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. — Christopher Lasch

We are all modern day explorers of an invisible alien world. — Steven Magee

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. — Alexander Rodchenko

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin — H.W. Brands

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. — Joseph Conrad

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it. — Ravi Zacharias

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection. — Seth Godin

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. — George Michael

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House. — C.S. Lewis

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me. — Guy Lombardo

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. — Ulysses S. Grant

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme — Flannery O'Connor

An empty skull is the vanitas symbol of modern education. — Bauvard

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. — Vladimir Putin

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair

The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. — Vaclav Havel

Us elderly are the modern lepers. — David Mitchell

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. — Aldous Huxley

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that. — Jonas Armstrong

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E.F. Schumacher

A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit. — Brad Goreski

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion. — Bo Derek

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. — Bruce R. McConkie

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy. — Brian Halweil

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it — Gunter Pauli

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — G.K. Chesterton

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them. — Nancy Gibbs

Health can be disrupted so easily by the habits of modern life. — Kulreet Chaudhary

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. — Jane Campion

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them. — Billy Graham

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. — Alan Dershowitz

She was a doyenne of the ready-meal, a devotee of the frozen pea, and believed takeaway to be more beneficial to modern humanity than penicillin — Claire Sandy

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. — Patricia Hewitt

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance. — Bill Blass

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple. — Debasish Mridha

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. — Bertrand Russell

It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department. — David Simon

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of. — Philip Reeve

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. — Will Cuppy

Deborah's little house was lavishly decorated in I-have-no-life modern. — Jeff Lindsay

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. — Matthew Kelly

In this age of one-night stands, virtual relationships and text sex, a wedding was a modern miracle. — Eleanor Prescott

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it. — Deborah King

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man. — Billy Graham

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics. — Bernie Sanders

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. — Lorene Scafaria

Information is the religion of the modern world. — David Lodge

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff

The human has no genetic adaptation to modern industrialized products and needs to be careful with prolonged exposure to these for good health. — Steven Magee

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris

You are born modern, you do not become so. — Jean Baudrillard

There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away. — Peter Matthiessen

Though a modern woman's computer is more intimate than her bed ... — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. — Gary Burton