#ode

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#conception #concerts #dominant #hearing #itself

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ↗

— Mae West

#imitation #just #lady #model #real

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#began #city #era #games #modern

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#glorify #modern #modern times #only #times

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#code #functionality #just #matter

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#code #only #priestly #rests #result

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? ↗

— Kathy Acker

#differences #i #modernist #question #really

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chronological #modernity #qualitative

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. ↗

— Armand Assante

#form #gangster #italian #modern-day #thing