Top 1200 Modern World Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

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

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

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

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

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

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It's not just settling into what we think they want.

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

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

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.