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.
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.
I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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.
The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.
Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.
The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.
