Top Modern Quotes

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.

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

Modern Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.

(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup...

More modern poetry is written than read.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities dire...

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

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

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Having brought off miracles in science and technology, this ‘master and proprietor’ is suddenly realiz...

Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, pai...

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xer...

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.