Actions Quote by Chiang Kai-shek

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence…

— Pope John Paul II

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,…

— Orhan Pamuk

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

— Joseph Goebbels

“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The key to living in the post-industrial post-modern world is finding means of affirming that we are citizens...that we are persons and associating with…

— John Pocock

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

— Linda Colley

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high…

— Ai Weiwei

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr