Modernism Quotes

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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.… — Albert Camus
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are born modern, you do not become so. — Jean Baudrillard
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. — Bruce Barton
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could… — Paul de Man
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. — Alexander Herzen
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead… — Elias Canetti
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly… — C. Wright Mills

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