Quotes About Modern

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough.

Like Tokyo? That's the capital of

Contrary to some expectations. Europe's brush with modern power revived its Christian culture. The 'Railway Age' was also the age of muscular Christianity.

This is the difference between the fox and the hedgehog. Both creatures know that storytelling is everything, and that the only way modern people can understand history and politics is through the machinations of a story. But only the hedgehog knows that storytelling is secretly the problem, which is why the fox is constantly wrong.

Modern people worry about smartphone addiction, despite the fact that landlines exercised much more control over the owner.

Like so many modern people, my relationship with technology makes no sense whatsoever: It's the most important aspect of my that I hate.

the dissonance between the public sensitivity to genetic engineering and the actual progress being made can be seen as a signpost for the modern anti-science movement in Western culture.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

El condón es el zapatito de cristal de nuestra generación. Reservas uno cuando conoces a un extraño, bailas toda la noche... y luego lo tiras.

El consenso más importante de la sociedad moderna es la organización del tránsito. La manera como puede interrelacionarse una marea de desconocidos que comparten un mismo camino y viajan casi todos sin incidentes. Con un conductor disidente hay suficiente para crear anarquía.

A condom is the glass slipper of our generation.

En la historia edípica moderna, es la madre la que mata al padre y se lleva al hijo. Y uno no se puede divorciar de su madre. Ni matarla.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not thestranger.

they were being compelled by modern politics to rally under one flag as goose-stepping Nazi NASCAR storm troopers.

Not too far out of line with what modern evangelical thought had become, sadly. Selfish people in awe of a selfish deity.

It disturbed him to know that the machine was listening all the time, a mechanical voyeur—then again, that was the aching paranoia of modern life, was it not? Your phone, listening. Your TV, listening. People put devices in their houses that were always and forever listening. Sometimes, even watching.

the fact remains that the Outsider is the rarity among human beings—which places him rather in the position of the soldier who claims he is the only one in step in the platoon. What about all the millions of men and women in our modern cities; are they really all the Outsider claims they are: futile, unreal, unutterably lost without knowing it?

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?

The red tears of tracers shrieked through the thoroughfares and stray bullets cratered the faces of banks, churches, condos, and franchises, every place of worship a city has to offer.

Modern women are frustrated and angry, their experience is limited; modern men are obsessed with the letter "I"; their writing is full of self-conscious indecency, self-conscious virility. It is essentially sterile.