Quotes About Modern

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?