Home / Topics / Modern Quotes

Modern Quotes

Browse 5028 quotes about Modern.

Modern Quotes

“We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.”

Country Interest Liberty Class Democracy Modern Speech Presses Discussion Permit Association Regimes Principal Ruling

Author:Gaetano Mosca

“Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.”

Literature Modern Blessing Constitution Presses Magazines Thanks Glorious Quotations Profitable Syllables Free Press Multiplying

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.”

Two Choices Five Modern Ten Treats Mark Presses Vegetables Pants Fifteen Psychiatry Analysts

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Made Book Seems Lines Modern Presses Printing Dividing Printing Press

Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.”

Modern Ready Presses Ancient Average Command Agreement Publishers Abusive

Author:Dora Russell

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."”

Giving Littles Modern Give Me Presses Boxes Bars Rats Modern Life Psychologist Skinner

Author:Jess Lair

“There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.”

“The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.”

Mean Littles Democracy Modern Highest Independent Election Crisis Presses Profound Available Commodity Free Market Judiciary Free Press Free Elections Independent Judiciary

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.”

“One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.”

Trying Wells Ideas Cities Modern Presses Albums Vampire Theme Mortality Reminders Memento Mori Memento

Author:Rostam Batmanglij

“The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.”

People War Loses Modern Sight Twenties Presses Strikes Shoulders California Novelists Killers Buttons Pakistan Corpses Rockets Drones Insidious

Author:Teju Cole