“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“-Vet du hva hun er? -Et Satans Fruentimmer! -Åh, Fremtidens Fruentimmer!” — Alexander L. Kielland Copy Share Image
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned” — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I’m surrounded by modernity, yet the ways of business remain unchanged since the age of barter and battery.” — David Mack Copy Share Image
“sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly,… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
“You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.” — Francis Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake Copy Share Image
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