Behind Quote by Richard Holbrooke

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed…

— Peter Singer

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

“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned 'more stuff'…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

— Elif Safak

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

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

— George Scialabba

There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance,…

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the…

— Chiang Kai-shek

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a…

— George W. S. Trow

“We are witnessing the rise of the digitalized, globalized, transnational, postindustrial society—and its discontents. The nationalist resurgence is only that: the outdated, the outgunned,…

— Hanzi Freinacht

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a…

— Steven Erikson

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith