Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)