Brutal Quote by Ai Weiwei

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is the most…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes…

— Susan Sontag

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel

“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can…

— Alexander Edmonds

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing

— Yohji Yamamoto

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

— Elliott Abrams

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.

— Sonia Rykiel