Modernity Quotes

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

— Robertson Davies

“People today are dying for something to live for.”

— J.S.B. Morse

The moderns do not realize modernity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It seems the more we know, the less we believe.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

— Herman Melville

Modernity is not about dress codes.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

— Emmanuel Macron

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

— Elliott Abrams

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

— William Blake

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

— Karl Pilkington

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

— Lewis Carroll

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

“Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.”

— Amit Kalantri

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

— Anthony Giddens

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.

— Patrick Bergin

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

“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity…

— Sara Sheridan

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

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

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

— Bram Stoker

“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning…

— Joseph Roach

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

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

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.…

— Andre Bazin

The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential…

— Henry Giroux

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

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

Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all…

— Allan Bloom

“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian…

— Anonymous

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…

— Roger Scruton

“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in…

— Wallace Stegner

“Multitasking is a highly overrated thing if you ask me. Today, we do everything in twos and threes. There is no longer…

— Anirudh Arun

Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture,…

— Anonymous

“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not…

— Wendell Berry

“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

“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the…

— Sharon Wall

“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day…

— Pankaj Mishra

“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