Top 115 Modern World Quotes

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

The modern world is about knowledge and it’s our job as mums to help our daughters.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.

The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and ‘Percy Jackson.’ I’ll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

We think the way we do partly because Socrates thought the way he did. His basic idea – that the unexamined life is not worth living – is what it means to live in the modern world, to develop ideas and ask questions.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think… All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

‘In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation’s economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private – which is not the same as the public and the personal – but the public and the private… it’s very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

Britain‘s political voice depends on our role as a leading and influential member of the E.U. If we leave, we are of less value to our allies and of less concern to our enemies. We need the strongest voice we can get in the dangerous modern world.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Most American writers don’t get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they’re not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It’s even harder to confront because admitting that it’s a problem seems spoiled.

I do believe that peoples’ natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

In a modern world where so much globally is homogenised it was exciting to discover the individuality of the different remote communities.

I much prefer the modern world.

It’s a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it’s not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask‘ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

You’ve got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

What’s great in the modern world is that it’s becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it’s also an issue of economics because it’s holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.

I thought ‘Hanna’ was an opportunity to explore a character whose femininity was so raw and unconditioned by the modern world.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

I’m not good at the modern world.

I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.

Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

We may be living in a modern world but people still believe in ‘Icchadhari Nagins’ and still visit temples to rid themselves of ‘sarp dosh.’

In a modern world where a majority of women say, ‘I don’t need you, I’ve got my money, I’ve got my stuff,’ I say, ‘I desperately need men.’ My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I’m on my knees for men.

What’s exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up – how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we’re all on the move and all so busy?

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

We think the way we do partly because Socrates thought the way he did. His basic idea – that the unexamined life is not worth living – is what it means to live in the modern world, to develop ideas and ask questions.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you – that whatever talents you have, it… I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it’s your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know?

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.

After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a massive new Defense Department, and later the creation of new civilian organizations with some defense functions, such as NASA and the Energy Department.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to ‘free market eugenics’.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law – to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it’s quite likely you will develop heart disease.

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don’t agree.

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. ‘Cogito ergo sum‘ is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we’ve invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.

But we don’t have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.

It’s an important point to make that people can’t just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don’t fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.

I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy – the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it’s really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

There seems to be such a laziness in – and I hate to use this phrase – the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world – don’t get me started. But don’t you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that ‘choice’ used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries – to our mutual advantage – is the way of the modern world.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.

We must treat access to the Internet similar to the way we treat access to all of our utilities because in the modern world lack of Internet access means people are held back from advancing economically, and it can even put their own health at risk.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.