Quotes About Modern

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

It's all so un-Victorian.

phones have made it so easy to be friends without ever having to see your friends and that's one good thing about today. One.

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long-lived or useful.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

The media is starting to understand that people will "buy" what they want to hear. That explains the growing popularity of MSNBC among liberals and FOX News among conservatives. They are the "Infonewtials" of the modern era.

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture.

Karol Wojty?a, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

the crisis of the modern world was first of all a crisis of ideas, a crisis in the very idea of the human person. History was driven by culture and the ideas that formed cultures. Ideas had consequences. And if the idea of the human person that dominated a culture was flawed, one of two things would happen. Either that culture would give birth to destructive aspirations, or it would be incapable of realizing its fondest hopes, even if it expressed them in the most nobly humanistic terms.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

You understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization unless you first admit that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life.

On ne comprend absolument rien à la civilisation moderne si l'on n'admet pas tout d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.