Quotes of: Modern-music Keyword

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Victor Pinchuk

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Heretics

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Ideas Have Consequences

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The Road to Oxiana

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Modern Happiness

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Metaphysical Horror

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...

Memento mori

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Manalive

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

Modern Poetry and the Tradition

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Modern Times

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead a modern democracy.

Spaceship Over Vancouver

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Walden

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

Gary Lineker

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and i...

John Hutton

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitpr...

John Ridley

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

Jonathan Raban