The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

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