Achievement Quote by Walter Kasper

“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today…

— Harvey Cox

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

— John Corigliano

“Progress. — Let us not be deceived! Time marches forward; we'd like to believe that everything that is in it also marches forward— that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we…

— H. G. Wells

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a…

— Charles Eisenstein

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that…

— Paul de Man

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the…

— Charles de Gaulle

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism…

— John Gresham Machen

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

— Mark Hopkins

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

— Bram Stoker