Quotes About Modern

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.

Whatever the technological advances of modern society—and they're nearly miraculous—the individualized lifestyles that those technologies spawn seem to be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Bluntly put, modern society seems to emphasize extrinsic values over intrinsic ones, and as a result, mental health issues refuse to decline with growing wealth. The more assimilated a person is into American society, the more likely they are to develop depression during the course of their lifetime, regardless of what ethnicity they are.

As modern society reduced the role of community, it simultaneously elevated the role of authority.

As modern society reduced the role of community, it simultaneously elevated the role of authority. The two are uneasy companions, and as one goes up

I guess they've become so cynical that they expect to be cheated. These modern companies have things rigged to their advantage.

Marketing, more than a lake or a forest, is the landscape of our modern lives.

I'd divide the modern business plan into five sections: Truth Assertions Alternatives People Money

Without making universal claims, we can assume that people in the contemporary West … live lives bedeviled by the porcupine dilemma. That is, we struggle on a daily basis to balance privacy and community, concern for self and others, sexual union and a room of our own.

An early attempt to give expression to a modern demos with access to political life occurred in the so-called Putney debates during the English civil wars

Inverted totalitarianism, in contrast, while exploiting the authority and resources of the state, gains its dynamic by combining with other forms of power, such as evangelical religions, and most notably by encouraging a symbiotic relationship between traditional government and the system of "private" governance represented by the modern business corporation.

I have a computer, a vibrator, and pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? - Tabitha

What are we doing here? (Delphine) Going to eat. What? You got Alzheimer's? (Jericho) No, but I don't see a restaurant around here. (Delphine) If I put us inside the restaurant, people might scream and freak. Not to mention, it has a Web cam there that makes it even harder to just poof inside. Damn modern people and their wizard's tools. (Jericho)

I'm at the stage in my life that real-estate apps turn me on.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.