Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

Jesse Schell

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Marsha Blackburn

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

Stephen Kinzer

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times