Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
William Halsey

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
Reese Witherspoon

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Wynton Marsalis

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
Nigella Lawson

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.
Corin Nemec

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Lester B. Pearson

I much prefer the modern world.
Keith Henson

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Lester B. Pearson

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Doug Coupland

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.
Tom Selleck

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
Anita Roddick

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner

I would loathe to work on modern films.
Julie Harris

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch