Quotes About Modern

Once, the eye of God watched people, now it was the camera lens.

Men wielded their video cameras like weapons, recording rather than experiencing...

Nostalgia for what's new: The French probably have a word for that.

I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there's nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can't excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn't know better.

I find fairies with cell phones disconcerting enough. Do they really need to use text talk?

Nothing is too ridiculous for modern politics.

Aristocratic titles mattered less and less nowadays.

And so I trust that, in addition to reading about my suggestions and priorities, each of you will contemplate your own ideas and possibilities, and will bring them forward on any of the forums that will emerge to discuss this most significant of issues facing the modern and postmodern world, all around a common theme: "Just how inclusive do you want to be?

Obsérvese que no estoy afirmando que la física moderna sostenga o demuestre una visión mística del mundo. Lo único que estoy diciendo es que esos físicos eran místicos, no que su disciplina fuera un quehacer místico o espiritual que conduzca a una visión religiosa del mundo.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who's under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

It is important both for the preparation for war and the conduct of war that they know that Fourth Generation war is, above all, light infantry warfare.