Quotes About Modern

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

I'm less Soho House these days, more Airbnb. It's just so useful to have a washing machine, or to rock up somewhere with a baby bed and all the other kit provided.

An ungentlemanly war it will be,' he grumbled. 'Will I lead my men with a sword? Ah, but no! I will lead my men with a dirty revolver in my hand. Parbleu! Such is modern warfare! A machine could do the whole cursed thing better -- we shall all be nothing but machines in this war.

The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.

Nerviosismo de la ciudad: no poder abrir el paquetito de azúcar para el café.

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!"

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation." -- Making Magic , p. 13

Except for professional athletes, dancers, cowboys, and a few other groups, most people in modern industrial societies have abnormally low energy expenditures. Workers sitting in swivel chairs or in driver's seats of cars or even pushing vacuum cleaners or electrically powered lawn mowers are being sedentary, and their leisure hours may be even more so.

The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.

The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.

The mechanisms our minds use to anticipate the results of our actions are inadequate for coping with modern media.

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Australian Aboriginal people is that they see the world in a multi-dimensional way – that's the only way I can describe it. Time is a more fluid concept for Aborigines than it is for us. Maybe they're string theorists, but I think that modern physical theory regarding the concept of time certainly has some resonance with an Aboriginal perspective. When

So Genesis 1 and 2 honor marriage as nothing less than the crowning glory of the creation of the universe. For us modern people who may see marriage as a product of human preference driving social evolution, that is a stunning claim. Moreover,

More importantly, modern dogs simply don't behave like modern wolves. Popular dog "experts" like Cesar Millan may tell you that a good dog owner needs to play the role of the alpha wolf, the dominant pack leader. But the fact is that dogs don't live in hierarchically organized packs. Indeed it's doubtful that most wolves live this way.

T]he greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Confessions of a Medical Heretic

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!