Quotes About Modern

I shall have to adopt a disguise,' said Luke with a sudden grin. 'What do you suggest? Artist? Hardly—I can't draw, let alone paint.' 'You could be a modern artist,' suggested Jimmy, 'Then that wouldn't matter.

Flora is like all these young girls nowadays, with no veneration for their betters and thinking they know best on every subject under the sun,

I can't really go along with this modern playing down of evil as something that doesn't really exist. There is evil. And evil is powerful. Sometimes more powerful than good. It's there. It has to be recognised – and fought. Otherwise -' he spread out his hands.'We go down to darkness

The walls were a shade just off-white—the thick pile carpet was so neutral as to be almost colourless—so was the upholstery. Chromium gleamed here and there,

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,' said Captain Wyatt. 'Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun, I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

Most peculiar, the way people danced nowadays. Flinging themselves about, seeming quite contorted. Oh well, young people must enjoy—

My father, Professor Beddingfeld, was one of England's greatest living authorities on Primitive Man. He really was a genius—everyone admits that. His mind dwelt in Palaeolithic times, and the inconvenience of life for him was that his body inhabited the modern world. Papa did not care for modern man—even Neolithic Man he despised as a mere herder of cattle, and he did not rise to enthusiasm until he reached the Mousterian period.

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

I t is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism. Nor is it the present colonial society that we wish to prolong, the most putrid carrion that ever rotted under the sun. It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days.

By comparison with them, among today's schoolteachers there are too many plain "salary-man" drudges. Or perhaps even more than salary men, there are too many bureaucrat types among those who become teachers. The kind of education these people dispense isn't worth a damn. There's absolutely nothing of interest in it. So it's no wonder that students today prefer to spend their time reading comic books.

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Les murs s'effritent : l'actualité force les portes du temple, la liberté des Modernes s'invite dans les cours de récréation et des salles de classe, le présent ne s'oublie jamais, les envies de la vie envahissant l'institution, la société, avec ses codes, ses modes, ses marques, ses emblèmes, ses objets fétiches, ses signes d'appartenance et de reconnaissance, déferle à l'école. (p49)

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

GO TO THE PAIN LOVERS is dystopian in a very modern, observational way. Peter (Magliocco) is a long time Vegas resident … he knows where to look in the underbelly of modern life for the dark side of humanity. Anyone familiar with his novels and poetry books knows he puts this knowledge to profitable use as he does here.

it's a hymn of the heretic, a piyut [liturgical poem] of a modern, doubtful person.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Indeed from an Aristotelian point of view a modern liberal political society can appear only as a collection of citizens of nowhere who have banded together for their common protection.

The book review pages of those journals are the graveyards of constructive academic philosophy, and any doubts as to whether rational consensus might not after all be achievable on modern academic moral philosophy can be put to rest by reading them through regularly.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, and Bakke was an engagement whose antecedents were at Gettysburg and Shiloh.

Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.