Quotes About Modern

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?

Cell phones are to adults what toy rattles are to infants.

Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

With increasing stresses at work and with higher expectations of lasting romance at home, relationships today are challenging for almost everyone.

She could not imagine finding the patience to raise kids in the age of cell phones, drugs, casual sex, social media, and everything else on the Internet.

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

In modern times, in my opinion, either everything is a moral question or there are no more moral questions. Nowadays, there are no compromises or there are only compromises. Never influenced, I keep my vigil. There is no letting up.

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.

Nothing in modern attitudes is believed more to signify exceptional intelligence than association with large pools of money. Only immediate experience with those so situated denies the myth.

In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it supplies.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

It's no stretch to say, then, that Thucydides coaches all who read him. For as his greatest modern interpreter (himself a sometime coach) has gently reminded us, the Greeks, despite their antiquity, "may have believed things we have either forgotten or never known; and we must keep open the possibility that in some respects, at least, they were wiser than we.

Man might defined as modern largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature.

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

By 1918 humankind was fully modern, and fully scientific, but too busy fighting itself to aggress against nature. Nature, however, chooses its own moments. It chose this moment to aggress against man, and it did not do so prodding languidly. For the first time, modern humanity, a humanity practicing the modern scientific method, would confront nature in its fullest rage.

The revolution of modern science and especially medical science began as science not only focused on this answer to "What can I know?" but more important, changed its method of inquiry, changed its answer to "How can I know it?

Both as a young man and more recently, he first figuratively and then literally set out to "play God," initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."