“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance.” — Zane Grey 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
“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 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
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
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
“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
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy… — Michael Shellenberger 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
“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a… — John Christy Copy Share Image
I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects.… — David Milch 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
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
“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton 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
“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
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac 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
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![“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted and in the attitude adopted toward them. The modern scientist has seen the breakdown of too many first principles to accept any as eternal truths. He…” quote by Leon Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/636/leon-roth-256195_medieval_one-chief-difference-between-the-medieva_2280569.jpg)
