Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

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

“Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)