To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci 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
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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 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
“Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced… — Andrew Sullivan 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
![“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The…” quote by Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f7/peter-l-berger-8474_believer_he-who-sups-with-the-devil-had-better-ha_1366760.png)
