Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

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

“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)