Modern Quotes

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.