(307 quotes found)
“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
William Orville Douglas
“Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.”
Walter F. Mondale
“In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists”
Anne Fausto
“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.”
Paul de Man
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry”
Randall Jarrell
“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
Camille Paglia
“The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion”
Thomas Carlyle
“I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”
William S. Gilbert
“All the modern inconveniences”
Mark Twain
“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses”
Calvin Trillin
