Quotes About Modern

Tragedy is full of ghosts, ancient and modern, and the line separating the living from the dead is continually blurred. This means that in tragedy the dead don't stay dead and the living are not fully alive. What tragedy renders unstable is the line that separates the living from the dead, enlivening the dead and deadening the living.

I recall thinking that this paper would be the least interesting paper that I will ever be on." Adleman could not have been more wrong. The system, dubbed RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) as opposed to ARS, went on to become the most influential cipher in modern cryptography.

the "modern" woman accepts masculine values: she prides herself on thinking, acting, working, and creating on the same basis as males; instead of trying to belittle them, she declares herself their equal.

Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society," notes Engels: at the very point where antiquity broke off its penchant for sexual love, the Middle Ages took it up again with adultery. And this is the form that love will take as long as the institution of marriage lasts.

Even the notion of 'miracle' is Western and modern; it is connected to the scientific conception of the world, with which it is nevertheless incompatible. What we regard as miracles, the Hindus see as natural effects of exceptional powers that are found in a few people, and more often in the saints. They thus constitute a presumption of saintliness.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

HOME is where the heart is, but today, the PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

You know it's the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century).

People always give higher priority to newer one, whatever it is.. Relation or thing.

Amythia," the pathological lack of myths, has been diagnosed as the root cause of any number of modern sociological and psychological evils.

As the blood of the Earth runs dry, a great many assumptions at the core of the modern project are going to have to be discarded. The toolkit of magic is one of the few available options we've got to make that difficult transition a little easier, and to begin making sense of a future that has not yet even begun to darken the dreams of most of today's humanity.

In a certain sense, of course, that's exactly what was going on. I say "in a certain sense" because it's very difficult to talk about magic in modern industrial society and be understood clearly. That's not because magic is innately difficult to understand. It's because our culture has spent the last two thousand years or so doing its level best not to understand it.