Top Modern Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Modern quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Leila Aboulela
I must settle for freedom in this modern time
- Leila Aboulela
Collection: Modern
Image of Joris-Karl Huysmans
The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Collection: Modern
Image of Frank Zappa
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
- Frank Zappa
Collection: Modern
Image of Carl Schmitt
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
- Carl Schmitt
Collection: Modern
Image of Gene Sarazen
Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.
- Gene Sarazen
Collection: Modern
Image of Rob James-Collier
It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.
- Rob James-Collier
Collection: Modern
Image of Arnold Schoenberg
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
- Arnold Schoenberg
Collection: Modern
Image of Attila Kotanyi
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
- Attila Kotanyi
Collection: Modern
Image of Michel Chossudovsky
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
- Michel Chossudovsky
Collection: Modern
Image of Claudio Monteverdi
The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
- Claudio Monteverdi
Collection: Modern
Image of Julien Benda
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
- Julien Benda
Collection: Modern
Image of Julien Benda
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
- Julien Benda
Collection: Modern
Image of Franz Grillparzer
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
- Franz Grillparzer
Collection: Modern
Image of Denise Linn
Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy.
- Denise Linn
Collection: Modern
Image of Negin Farsad
We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
- Negin Farsad
Collection: Modern
Image of Irving Kristol
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
- Irving Kristol
Collection: Modern
Image of Ana Lily Amirpour
I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.
- Ana Lily Amirpour
Collection: Modern
Image of Christian Scott
The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.
- Christian Scott
Collection: Modern
Image of Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Modern
Image of George Orwell
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
- George Orwell
Collection: Modern
Image of Susan Sontag
What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Modern
Image of W. S. Merwin
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
- W. S. Merwin
Collection: Modern
Image of Michael Eric Dyson
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.
- Michael Eric Dyson
Collection: Modern
Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Collection: Modern
Image of Daniel Tosh
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
- Daniel Tosh
Collection: Modern
Image of William S. Burroughs
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: Modern
Image of William J. Clinton
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Modern
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Modern
Image of Noam Chomsky
Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Modern
Image of Mason Cooley
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Modern
Image of Barry Commoner
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Modern
Image of Mason Cooley
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Modern
Image of Epictetus
You lose only the things you have
- Epictetus
Collection: Modern
Image of John Fowles
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
- John Fowles
Collection: Modern
Image of W. S. Gilbert
I am the very model of a modern major general
- W. S. Gilbert
Collection: Modern
Image of Joe Buck
Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.
- Joe Buck
Collection: Modern
Image of David Attenborough
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
- David Attenborough
Collection: Modern
Image of Walt Kelly
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.
- Walt Kelly
Collection: Modern
Image of Chris Matthews
Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
- Chris Matthews
Collection: Modern
Image of Roland Barthes
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
- Roland Barthes
Collection: Modern