The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Much of what ails our modern life is exactly because we reduce the value of a human being to a number, say… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“A piece of plastic stole an entire species— In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator, Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations, During… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime.… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“Modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
