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Quotes About Modern

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery
~ Bertrand Russell
I think that these is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached
~ Bertrand Russell
The soul is not dead, but silent, the wisdom not lacking, but of such simplicity as to be counted non-existent in the tinker's mind of modern civilization.
~ Beryl Markham
Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.
~ H. W. Brands
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
~ Mick Rock
Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
~ Emily Robison
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
~ J. D. Vance
Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.
~ Lord Robertson
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
~ Walter F. Mondale
To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
~ Martin O'Malley
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
~ Eric Schlosser
One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
Like the majority of Atlanta's residents, I am Black. Our city helped birth the modern civil rights movement, and I am the daughter of a civil rights leader.
~ Lucy McBath
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
~ Nancy Banks Smith
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
~ Will Self
Civilization is what makes you sick.
~ Paul Gauguin
We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.
~ Roxane Gay
I really like LED signs because I feel like they're a really easy way to decorate a house and make it feel like it's a lot cooler than it actually is.
~ David Dobrik
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
~ Bryan Ferry
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
~ Michael Leunig
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
~ Roger Waters
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
~ Twyla Tharp
My favorite colors are black, white and silver.
~ Christina Anstead
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
~ Rachel Boston