Modernity Quotes

120 Modernity quotes by 87 unique authors

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
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. — Pranab Mukherjee
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. — Paul de Man
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity… — Bernard Arnault
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. — Robert Bork
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared… — Anthony Giddens
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as… — Anthony Giddens
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the… — Alexander Kluge
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail. — Oriana Fallaci
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply… — Alexander Haig
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year. — Dylan Moran
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. — Queen Rania of Jordan
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to… — Salman Rushdie
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the… — Vera Wang
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. — Oscar Wilde
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and… — Terry Tempest Williams
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity. — Robertson Davies

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