#modern

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#effect #gives #instead #male #multicultural

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

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. ↗

— George Michael

#business #feel #i #i feel #modern

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#dancers #give #modern #our #portent

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#constitution #defines #embodies #federal #idea

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#broken #modern #most #pane #politics

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. ↗

— Walter Pater

#become #fashions #modern #modes #more

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. ↗

— Christine Pelosi

#donald #hussein #includes #join #photo

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing