modern Quotes

The modern economics of the newsroom don\'t support big investigative reporting staffs.

Modern wisdom: when every conversation feels like a workday, doing nothing becomes a celebrated form of genius.

In the modern world, the ability to speak is valued more than having any degree.

The veteran loudly raged about the modern moral licentiousness and quietly grieved about the impossibility of taking advantage of it.

Media is the battlefield of modern politics, and every message is a weapon in the fight for public opinion.

A constitutional state needs a modern law of the jungle.

The modern press is not hopeless. Sometimes bad taste betrays newspapermen.

From a political geography textbook: In ancient times, all roads led to Rome. In modern times, they began to look for the road to the temple. Those who would inevitably come to shame by any road looked for it. Even an unreasonable person can make the right move if he starts from false premises.

The frenzy of modern journalism is partly explained by the fact that women set the tone...

There can be no enlightened monarch in modern Russia. All the contenders studied in evening schools of Marxism-Leninism.

A cult of personality is impossible in modern Russia - to make hare stew, you need at least a cat.

A psychologist can justify any deviation, making it part of modern culture.

Trying to maintain aggressive dominance in the modern world, Western countries are directing special aspirations to the post-Soviet space. Now the risks and threats from Western countries have increased many times, although Russia has never wished them any harm.

Each new generation of veterinarians must be prepared to adapt and implement modern technologies to provide quality animal care.

A modern monarchy must reflect the society it serves. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is not just a duty but a reflection of the very essence of our nation\'s heart and soul.

Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

The modern diet and sedentary lifestyle are at odds with our evolutionary history and have detrimental effects on our health.

The question so often asked of modern painting, \"What is it?\", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

I\'m not good at the modern world.

Oh, that\'s typical of you modern young men; you\'ve nibbled at science and it\'s made you ill, because you\'ve not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You\'d like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we\'re only just beginning to understand it, and it\'ll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won\'t have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it\'s the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you\'re all inverted Werthers.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Modern states do not need thinking people.

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

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.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don\'t care about the genre.

Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it\'s pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.