Top 1200 Modern Times Quotes & Sayings

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

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

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

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

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

It's funny how much of the 'old times' are still rooted in modern America.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

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

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of modern life and factory life would be good for a lot of laughs, and that's why he did the film - not because he wanted to diagnose the industrial revolution.

A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. Like, we're not all just talking Taoism and kung fu - some people are just trying to get over their breakup with their boyfriend, and they're Facebook-stalking.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they're on the run absolutely defies reality.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us. You can't believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they're all conspiring against Christians.'

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with a core of modern times.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

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

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.