Quotes About Modern

I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

For a modern look, hang curtains from the ceiling with a very simple pleat at the top so they will hang straight.

I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?

The groundlessness of modern society, characterized by the reduction of pedestrian experience to the operation of a stepping machine, and by the corresponding elevation of head over heels as the locus of creative intelligence, is…deeply embedded in the structures of public life in western societies.

humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats and vegetable oils.

To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don't.

One of the more stressful parts of modern life is dealing with all the unlikeable people who populate it. If they don't kill themselves with their own unpleasantness and rudeness, they'll drive the rest of us to drink.

We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.

the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

beauty has become a modern-day superdrug, that with filtered and face-tuned social media, retouched models on advertisements, and rampant pornography, we've overloaded the senses so that our natural instincts can no longer recognize or react to real beauty anymore. And it's making us confused and miserable, both in how we judge ourselves and how we judge others.

The disease of our times is that we live on the surface.

The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

The essence of "new" is, of course, the modern version of Roman coliseum shows and gladiator combats. American civilization, for certain explicit biblical reasons, apparently requires that its leaders, its political heroes be publicly sacrificed.

When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.

My mother was a mother of mothers, modern before she was ancestral. She was a woman who morphed into feline, back to her human self before I woke each morning.

Whereas previously men were differentiated only by their culture, the community is all of sudden split into economically determined classes and, with the cheap products of the factory, a poverty without beauty invades the homes; ugly, senseless, and comfortless poverty is the most widespread of all modern achievements.

In reality, the apparent 'objectivity' of modern architecture is merely a mysticism in reverse, a congealed sentimentality disguised as objectivity; moreover one has seen often enough just how quickly this attitude is converted, in its protagonists, into the most changeable and arbitrary of subjectivisms.

Una volta avevamo il tempo di cercare la pace. Oggi non più.

J'ai toujours été intéressé par l'aspect humain. On ne le répétera jamais assez : toutes ces expériences, toutes ces sociétés modernes ne peuvent pas être jugées uniquement en fonction de l'efficacité de leur structure économique. Elles s'évaluent surtout en fonction du type d'hommes qui produisent ces objets, et du type de vie qu'ils sont obligés de mener. (p. 304)

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.