Quotes by Modern Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. Gilbert K. Chesterton modern tyranny silence Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire. Giorgio Armani attire modern modern-life The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them. Gilbert K. Chesterton modern losing people A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions. Glenn Reynolds prohibition modern government Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. Gilbert K. Chesterton modern language men Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. George Bernard Shaw sermon-on-the-mount modern poverty Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management Gordon Brown economic modern management Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. Gordon Parker bipolar modern may The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. Graham Joyce modern superstitions You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God. Greg Egan pascal wagers modern If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Gilbert K. Chesterton strengthening modern morality I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid of a particularly cantankerous chairman of the board rather than the great leader of the world. Gregory Doran modern leader world I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate. Gregory Doran critique modern metaphor Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. Gregory Benford welfare modern economics Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. Greil Marcus vans modern singers The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton modern simplicity world Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. George Bernard Shaw steam-engines modern civilization In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. Guy Debord accumulation representation modern We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. Guy Laliberte circus modern way Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made. Guillermo del Toro modern problem looks «7891011121314151617»