Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.
Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.
I would loathe to work on modern films.
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.