Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.
If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its image...
I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound lik...
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
It's your life, not your death, that defines you.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
