The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
London is a modern Babylon.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.
I realized the modern equivalent of a broadsword duel would be a chainsaw battle.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.