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
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer 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
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
It is not unfortunate that today, obscenity is being encourages in the name of modernity; unfortunate is that the young generation is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a… — Antonio Gramsci 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
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as… — Sharanya Haridas 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
You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism… — Graham Harvey 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 like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very… — Mario Testino 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
“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
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Modernity is the condition a society reaches when life is no longer conceived as cyclical. In a premodern society, where the purpose… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
“An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is… — Colin E. Gunton Copy Share Image
“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the… — Sharon Wall Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.” — Charles Bukowski 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] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The…” quote by Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f7/peter-l-berger-8474_believer_he-who-sups-with-the-devil-had-better-ha_1366760.jpg)
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