Modernity Quotes

120 Modernity quotes by 87 unique authors

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,… — Lewis Carroll
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker
The death of God left the angels in a strange position. — Donald Barthelme
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and… — George Carlin
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. — Chuck Palahniuk
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately… — James Gleick
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. — Dan Savage
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. — Allan Bloom
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the… — Unknown Author
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive… — Steven Pinker
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and… — Mario Testino
I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true.… — Huston Smith
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems… — George W. S. Trow
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third… — David Novak
For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow. — Jose Andres Puerta
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. — Emile Lahoud
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference… — Rowan Williams

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