Modern Times Quotes
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Modern Times Quotes & Sayings
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
— John Lothrop Motley
Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
— Pearl S. Buck
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
— Thucydides
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
— Guillermo Del Toro
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
— E.F. Schumacher
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
— Henry A. Wallace
In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.
— Charles Krauthammer
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
— Eqbal Ahmad
The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration
— Eric Hoffer
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
— George Washington
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
— Ezra Pound
Only expectation has value as currency,
— Brandon Sanderson
The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
— Robert James Waller
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
— Elton John
The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.
— Nirmala Srivastava
in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian
— Samuel Noah Kramer
Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
— Lawrence Lessig
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
— Julian Assange
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before ...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
— Nirmala Srivastava
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
— Agnes De Mille
It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality.
— The School Of Life
Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
— Chris Matthews
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
— Mark E. Petersen
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
— Michelle Dockery
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
— George W. Bush
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.
— Ezra Taft Benson
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
— Elie Abel
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
— Fernand Leger
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.
— Pascal Bruckner
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
— John Gresham Machen
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
— Janet Flanner
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
— Fulton J. Sheen
We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.
— Jens Jensen
Times have changed.These days girls impress each other with their careers, not with the men on their arm.
— Somi Ekhasomhi
But who, in these modern times, slept well?
— Dexter Palmer