Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health but only itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang Tod Browning and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

In a funny way poems are suited to modern life. They're short they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines and a poem takes less time than an article.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress behavior career and sexual orientation.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

I wouldn't say that processed food ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Hitler was so modern in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!