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Quotes About Modern

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research
~ Ike Skelton
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
~ Dave Barry
I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.
~ George W. Bush
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
~ El Lissitzky
Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.
~ Edward Bernays
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
~ Thomas Merton
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
~ William Beveridge
As a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity.
~ Frank Ocean
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
~ Fernand Leger
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
~ Rama Swami
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
~ Walter Lippmann
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
~ Lauren Bacall
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!
~ Groucho Marx
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.
~ Charles Hummel
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
~ Earl Wilson
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.
~ Neal Stephenson
Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind. Like instructions for programming a VCR.
~ Neal Stephenson
in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations.
~ Neal Stephenson
The modern world's hell on haiku writers: "Electrical generator" is, what, eight syllables? You couldn't even fit that onto the second line!
~ Neal Stephenson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo," Enoch said.
~ Neal Stephenson