Actuality Quote by Kenny Smith

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to…

— Emma Goldman

“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before…

— René Girard

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

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We…

— Kenneth Rexroth

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

“Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are…

— Brian J. D'Souza

“Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“In a society that no longer understands the figure of the ascetic and of the warrior; in which the hands of the latest aristocrats…

— Julius Evola

I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory…

— Murray Bookchin

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