“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of… — Kambiz Shabankare Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact. — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It is necessary to go back to our age old beliefs to save our ethos which are on the decline due to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
