Top 1200 Modern Liberalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.'

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

I don't think we are modern if we need to tie a rakhi to someone just so that we can be friends?

I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

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

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

The modern girl I played in 'Idhu'... came quite naturally to me.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

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

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

I'm curious about the mix of the effortless bohemian thing with the very modern.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

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

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.