Modernism Quotes
110 quotes by 91 authors
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
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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
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
— Frank A. Clark
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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
— Jean Baudrillard
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
— Eric Hoffer
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
— Upton Sinclair
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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
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
— Oscar Wilde
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
— Wallace Stevens
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
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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
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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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