You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.” — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep… — A.J. Orde Copy Share Image
“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
“Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the… — Sarah Burton Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“Ebenezer Howard’s vision of the Garden City would seem almost feudal to us. He seems to have thought that members of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore.… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the… — Fraser Nelson Copy Share Image
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives—not only, or even primarily,… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
