Quotes About Anti-modern

To be resolutely " anti-modern " is not to be anti-Western. in any sense of the word; it means, on the contrary, making the only effort that can be of any value to save the West from its own confusion.

MORDICO: Yes, to speak of an "un-American poetry" is to be anti-modern, searching for an essence, not in words but among words—to help English grow a limb it does not have.

Premodern peoples are said to have no creative ability and anti-modern fundamentalists are said to have a profound ability to be destructive. The destruction is taken as proof that they have no appreciation for human life, including their own.