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Modern Quotes

The act of being modern is called modernism or modernity. We have come out of generations of protest to the rise of modernism in response to what was called realism. Great philosophers said that modernity is a qualitative category. It is a natural feeling that you want to improve everything from its original state – whether it is music, fashion or concepts of movies, drama etc and this is what is termed as modern. To get a clearer picture, browse through these famous modernism quotes!

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Best Living
Meg Ryan
Benedict Cumberbatch

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

World
Benedict Cumberbatch
Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Style Tradition Vanity
Salvador Dali
Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Television
Abbie Hoffman
C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Teachers
C. S. Lewis
Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Jean Baudrillard
Amber Heard

Modern cars I don't like so much.

Amber Heard
Antonin Scalia

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

Antonin Scalia
Joseph Conrad

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Sea
Joseph Conrad
Lady Gaga

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

Right
Lady Gaga
Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Pleasure
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Pleasure
Aldous Huxley
Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Power State
Albert Camus
Elton John

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Elton John
Jonathan Groff

I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.

Work
Jonathan Groff
Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli
Stephen Hawking

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Science Physics
Stephen Hawking
Cate Blanchett

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

World
Cate Blanchett