21st century Quote by Mark Fisher Download Open image “The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion.” — Mark Fisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 21st century Century Exhaustion Sense
These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from “progress”—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to disdain it.… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect)… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Structurally, as is evident, the role of the 'Islamic Terror' is to fill the gap left by the disintegration of Stalinism. That is why… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is now as… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“You know it’s the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.” — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Facebook, Twitter...Welcome to The 21st Century...Where Someone can stalk you without leaving the couch!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human Race is all over universe! And I am the first person to inform you. I am the most influential person of this decade… — Ashwani Kumar Ojha Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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