Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:
“Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)