Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

T. E. Lawrence

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Karl Lagerfeld

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Michael Leunig

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Nancy Gibbs

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Patricia Hewitt

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Alexander Lebedev

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

Candice Olson

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Camille Paglia

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

Lewis B. Smedes

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

Berenice Marlohe

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Charles Jencks

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Christian Louboutin

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

George Bernard Shaw