Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

“It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)