A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it.
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of ...
If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have to accept the incredible wisdom of the Creator in the creation of the multiplicity of life forms which we see on the surfa...
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open...
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom...
Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.
Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.
'Elixir' means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.
