Modernity Quotes

120 Modernity quotes by 87 unique authors

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that… — Roger Scruton
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has… — I. M. Pei
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. — Robert Hewison
My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where… — Emir Kusturica
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures… — Arnold Beichman
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it… — David F. Wells
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. — Ernest Gellner
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the… — Pope Francis
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the… — Kenny Smith
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It… — Bill Buford
There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no… — Thomas Oden
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… — Kenny Smith
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even… — Jacques Chirac
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. — Octavio Paz
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way. — Berenice Marlohe
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity,… — Berenice Marlohe
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for… — Daniel L. Akin
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures… — Huston Smith
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which… — Kenny Smith
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart

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