[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]
If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.
Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
The doors magically opened without the assistance of modern electronic devices. Instead, they cleverly employed doormen.
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)
I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.
We the people, the 99% don’t fit in the Hierarchy of Modern Society; the 1 % is not an expanding entity like the Universe, the 99% will never fit in.
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
