Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

Robert Johnson

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Andrea Bocelli

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Herbert Read

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Howard Rheingold

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Max Eastman

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

Richard Phillips

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Heretics

Scientism is gnosticism wrapped in a post-modern package". ~R. Alan Woods [2009]

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War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Paul Singer

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Rick Baker

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

Richard Flanagan

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Stephen Gardiner

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Stanley Hauerwas

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Salman Rushdie

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

Skeet Ulrich

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Tony Blair

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Thomas Paine