Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
—John Buchan (1875–1940)

“The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)