Quotes About Modernity

We shall often find in our story that the religious behavior of people who have not been major beneficiaries of modernity articulates a strongly felt need for the spiritual

Surveys show that a large proportion of veiled women hold progressive views on such matters as gender. For some women, who have come from rural areas to the university and are the first members of their family to advance beyond basic literacy, the assumption of Islamic dress provides continuity and makes their rite of passage to modernity less traumatic than it might otherwise have been.

All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

The world's not getting any stranger.We are!

If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested in world history have tried to see modernity as a global problem that requires a global explanation.

The logical tendency of modernity, in its dominant liberal form, is to look on love as at best a matter of piety or good will, and not as the very stuff that makes our lives and the things of the world real, the basic order of our lives and of all things.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

If I had to start over, I'll do the same thing: street clothes are the future; the client can choose two or three things and combine them as she wants.

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

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.

The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything—and really everything—can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous

But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that "local" and "authentic" food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore a problem, not something we can ever depend on as some kind of naturally occurring category. Tradition is crafted, just as much as modernity is manufactured.

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!