Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

William Eggleston

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Science and the Modern World

Pain is the only pleasure in the world, this is the biggest paradox!

SHE- Stories of Modern Indian Women

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

The Wild Ass's Skin

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Theodore Bikel

In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.

Kishore Bansal

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

Julianne Moore

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Bear Grylls

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

David Guterson

There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.

Joanne Froggatt

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Denis Leary

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein

Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to elimi...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the astronomer's knowledge of our place...

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and t...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation