Freedom Quote by Rodney Stark

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to…

— Lewis Mumford

“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can…

— Alexander Edmonds

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

— George Santayana

“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms -…

— David F. Ford

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to…

— Gordon Brown

“Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization.”

— Toba Beta

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an…

— Jacques Ellul

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really…

— Rashida Jones

“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever…

— Ma Boyong