All Quotes

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
‐‐ Ivan Illich

Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

Modern morality is all about perception.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
‐‐ Alain Robert

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
‐‐ Robert Frost

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.
‐‐ Michel Faber

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
‐‐ Alexander Ludwig

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
‐‐ Dweezil Zappa

Modern romance novels tell a young woman that she can be successful, useful, and valuable on her own; that there are men who will respect her and treat her well; and that such men are worth waiting for.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
‐‐ Robert Lanza

Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
‐‐ Burton Richter

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
‐‐ David Christian

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
‐‐ Albion W. Small

Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
‐‐ Jacques Ellul

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
‐‐ Martin Parr

Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
‐‐ John Berger

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
‐‐ John Ruskin

'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.
‐‐ Kevin Garnett

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
‐‐ Alexander Herzen

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.
‐‐ Cindy Crawford

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
‐‐ James Fenton