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The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Deep neural networks are responsible for some of the greatest advances in modern computer science.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

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