Modern Quotes

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern.
Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,
and this state is constant.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

War is the highest form of modern art.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Don't bother about being modern.
Unfortunately it is the one thing that,
whatever you do,
you cannot avoid.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.