Iconoclasm Quote by Irving Howe

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

— George Scialabba

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values,…

— Steven Pinker

“The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.”

— Paul Brannigan

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

— Yuval Noah Harari

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

— E. M. Delafield

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how…

— Le Corbusier

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the…

— George F. Kennan

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 is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr