“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the… — Steve Jurvetson 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
“Traditions brings continuity to one’s existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost throughout modernity.” — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen Copy Share Image
“Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is… — Sunday Adelaja 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
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith 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
The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion..… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux 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
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
“For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its story (even though it… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud 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
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The great political, artistic, and religious project of modernity has been to find a meaning to life that is not rooted in… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since… — Daniel Boorstin Copy Share Image
The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold 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
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
“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
The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential… — Henry Giroux 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
“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
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
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