Contract Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet in fact modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

— George Scialabba

“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”

— Alain de Benoist

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

— Irving Howe

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“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

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

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

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it…

— Alain Badiou