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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

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. — Andy Warhol

It is rare in today's turbulent world to find a city that so harmoniously mixes tradition and modernity, without enslaving itself to either one. — Margie Rynn

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

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year. — Dylan Moran

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck

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

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens

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

Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity. — Nick Cohen

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love. — John Fowles

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

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age! — Ted Cruz

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. — Robert Bork

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 lost
throughout 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

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. — Dan Savage

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

It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people. — Paul C. Vitz

Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction. — Paul Murray

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

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity. — Eric Kandel

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 critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. — Paul De Man

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later: — Bram Stoker

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

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance. — J.R. Rim

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

You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance. — Zane Grey

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

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake

People today are dying for something to live for. — J.S.B. Morse

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. — Chuck Palahniuk

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way. — Berenice Marlohe

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation. — John Mark Reynolds