Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
    Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)