#modern

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#composition #grass #history #incorporated #influence

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#accusation #authenticity #concern #lost #modern

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#completely #health #modern #needs #social

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#armaments #available #axes #battle #condemned

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better? ↗

— Dan Hicks

#better #modern #note #retro #sounds

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

I would loathe to work on modern films. ↗

— Julie Harris

#i #loathe #modern #work #would

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#date #either #good #modern #music

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#around #avoid #beyond #descend #get

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#bothers #him #his #knows #less