Modern Quotes

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.

Linda Colley

GovernmentControlWayUpModern

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Simone Weil

JusticeSocietyCrimeMoreModern

I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

Taj Mahal

MusicMyselfBluesModernAfrican

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Kurt Busiek

FreedomPeopleCareSeeModernSaw

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Robert Englund

WiseHorrorAudienceModernOurGag

Modern morality is all about perception.

Rachel Cusk

PerceptionMoralityModernAbout

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

Julianne Moore

BeautyWomanMeAirportModern

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.

Robin Marantz Henig

LifeFeelModernMakeModern Life

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.

Orson Pratt

ChristianAuthorityMoreModernThan

I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role.

Janet Montgomery

LoveDayPlayModernRoleLike

I think Black Lives Matter is a necessary, modern group of activism and should be applauded. I encourage them to continue in their efforts.

Ron Stallworth

BlackThinkGroupMatterModern

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

Om Malik

MarriageWithoutLocationModern

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

James Ransone

GratitudeMeModernFortunateSense

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

Mary Berry

LifeFamilyAgeTogetherUpModern

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Malik Bendjelloul

ArtDetroitNowhereModernAway

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

Herman Daly

GrowthWorldThoughtModernEconomic

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

Michael Specter

LifeEffortBiologyUpModernFour

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Lafcadio Hearn

RespectMoralityMoreMankindModern

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Herbert Read

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Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

Lukas Forchhammer

MusicModernPopChangedAlbumDre

There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.

Irvine Welsh

PeopleYouPhoneHardModernMobile

Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.

Gil Marks

FamilyFriendsPrepareFancyModern

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison.

Judith Jamison

DanceYouKnowWayCompanyModern

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

H. W. Brands

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