Quotes About Modernity

modernity likes the abstract over the particular;

The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding

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

Así pues el señor G., al haberse impuesto la tarea de buscar y explicar la belleza de la modernidad, representa mujeres muy arregladas y embellecidas por todas las pompas artificiales, cualquiera que sea el estrato social al que pertenecen.

Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

I don't know if I'm the modern-day Dirk, but, you know, I'll take it. I won't complain about that.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

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

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

triple evils of modernity: Nazism, Communism and 'Americanism'.

In the intangible digital realm, nothing is static or fixed. Everything is becoming. Upon this relentless change all the disruptions of modernity ride.

The critics of modernity were warning that one must be vigilant against the demands of hyperorganized commercial society and consumerism lest they undermine one's true humanity.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

I've become more and more comfortable with occasionally dressing sexier, but I still hope to express a 'cool' type of sensuality.