Quotes About Modern

My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He's also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns.

Llevar anteojos era considerado pretencioso, era señal de ahorro, de trabajo serio, de una concepción moderna del mundo.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

In addition, the modern mind often tends toward humanism, making humans and human standards the highest object of value and concern.

I was with it Jim, really with it.

LA isn't a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn't in my house or my car we'll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I'm not really with them, I'm with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can't help smiling to myself as I text them back.

la tercera forma de autoridad —y la más apropiada a los tiempos modernos—, decía, era la «burocrática» y «racional», apoyada en leyes y ejercida por una estructura administrativa capaz de hacer respetar unas normas claras y consistentes.

opinaba Weber, la clave para ejercer el poder en la sociedad moderna era la organización burocrática.

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

un ejército moderno y de gran tamaño ya no basta para garantizar que un país pueda alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos.

Men often swear to kill themselves, and yet Few of them, nowadays, make good their threat

The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross

Gone are the days when basic needs were food, shelter and clothing. Money replaced everything.

it becomes clearer that modern culture has derived its basis from Ancient Egypt, though the credit is not often given, nor the integrity of the practices maintained in the new religions. This is another important reason to study Ancient Egyptian Philosophy, to discover the principles which allowed their civilization to prosper over a period of thousands of years in order to bring our systems of government, religion and social structures to a harmony with ourselves, humanity and with nature.

Love in the 21st century is an immersion in greedy mathematics.

Marketing selfish dogmas and propaganda is the architecture of modern thinking into which modern theories and hypotheses and other kinds of opinions are placed that grow to the level of dogmas.

Not only our organism has a machine structure, but also our modern culture becomes a mechanized association. Filigree study of human behavior, modified by socialization. All this turns us into soulless robots of society.

Selfishness returns the logic of modern, indigenous culture, patriotic science, to the animal sources of survival. Billions of people each think about themselves, people will die of selfishness.

The genitals inhibit the evolutionary development of the brain, since the trends of modern culture develop at the expense of the genitals, inflation, selfishness, infantilism, etc. The world will heal profundity.

A patient looking for the physician. It was a great ideology, but now we live in a modern age, where the physician is allowed to seek out patients.

Big books are old fashioned. Now we focus on quality rather than quantity.

The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed worrying signs of the same culture in some expressions of Christianity.

If we thought that because we now lived in the 'modern world' we were exempt–that our science and technology had now produced 'progress' that would eliminate all such things–we were obviously wrong. Just like those at the end of the nineteenth century who thought that Western society was now advancing smoothly towards the Kingdom of God. So, throughout Church history, Jesus' followers have usually avoided such lines of thought.

our confidence is not in the solidity of Western culture or the basic goodness of modern democracy. Our confidence is in Jesus and him alone.