“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin 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
“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
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
“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
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 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
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“If a man erects any barriers at all to those he would consider his companions, he is condemned as a bigot. Modernity… — Tanner Cook Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps… — Alexander Edmonds Copy Share Image
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the… — Marshall Berman 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“[...] 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
“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
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
“Nothing like a hot cup of black filtered coffee, none of that fancy espresso crap. Especially from those new pod machines. What… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
“On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend… — Amit Kalantri 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
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“Modernity could be identified with the gradual disappearance of ritual , of those kind of communal bonds founded upon a symbolically shared… — Thomas Brockelman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
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