Modern Culture Quotes
26 quotes by 21 authors
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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
— Robert McAfee Brown
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Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a…
— Tom Selleck
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in…
— Rem Koolhaas
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The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.…
— William Lane Craig
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Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively…
— Christopher Dawson
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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body…
— Alexander Lowen
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In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.
— Ravi Zacharias
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By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist…
— Claudia Roth
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One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...
— Chris Hedges
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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
— Oscar Wilde
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern…
— Ice T
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety…
— Georg Simmel
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Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings…
— Kenny Smith
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Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
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Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities…
— Philip Yancey
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While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is…
— Richard R. Nelson
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Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
— Theophilus London
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends…
— Oscar Wilde
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If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for…
— Wade Davis
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any…
— Randall Jarrell
Who Wrote These Modern Culture Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 26 Modern Culture Quotes as follows: