Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing—he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)