The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Ibrahim Babangida

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes de Mille

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.
Guy Laliberte

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
Henry A. Wallace

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
Henry A. Wallace

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Henry A. Wallace

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Henry A. Wallace

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
Lenny Kravitz

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
P. G. Wodehouse

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
Paul Farmer

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Vin Diesel

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Lou Reed