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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
— Theodore Bikel
That's modernity, if you ask me: endless division.
— Lauren Oliver
And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
— Theodor Adorno
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.
— Irving Howe
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
— Emile Lahoud
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
— Charles Baudelaire
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
— G.K. Chesterton
That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.
— Don DeLillo
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
— Douglas Wilson
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
— Herman Melville
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
— James Shikwati
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
— James K.A. Smith
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
— Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is not about dress codes.
— Queen Rania Of Jordan
Ties are straightened and expressions banished.
— Rana Dasgupta
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
— Sylvain Tesson
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.
— Patrick Bergin
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Parking lots and chaos.
— Neal Stephenson
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
— Soren Kierkegaard
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
— Donald Barthelme
Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lostthroughout modernity. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
Modernity's double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
— Pranab Mukherjee
You can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
— G. Willow Wilson
science is the salvation narrative of modernity.
— Thomas S. Popkewitz
The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!
— Ken Wilber
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
— Robert A. Heinlein
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
— Ernest Gellner
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
— Sivananda Saraswati
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.
— Francis Stuart Campbell
It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.
— Sverker Sorlin
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.
— Mark Twain
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
— Sherwood Anderson
Christmas ought to be brought up to date," Maria said. "It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
— John Masefield
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
— Jose Andres
It seems the more we know, the less we believe.
— J.S.B. Morse
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
— Antonio Gramsci
Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
— Queen Rania Of Jordan
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.
— St. Anthony The Great
In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.
— Meghna Pant
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
— Richard Holbrooke
Gradually her fear faded to the existential angst that incessantly haunts all mankind in modernity.
— Nell Zink
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
— Richard M. Weaver
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.
— Samuel Wilson
The moderns do not realize modernity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.
— Anthony Marais
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
— Michel Foucault
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
— Antonio Gramsci
Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'. On
— Yuval Noah Harari
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
— Robertson Davies
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
— Charles Bukowski
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity is the most transient of qualities.
— Anthony Daniels
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
— Bruno Latour
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
— Eric Hoffer
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.
— Rana Dasgupta
Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain
Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
People today are dying for something to live for.
— J.S.B. Morse
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
— Chuck Palahniuk
