Quotes About Modern

He was, in the words of one modern historian, 'the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England'.

the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state.   The

It is a fact of modern life that day care and nanny care have become more common.

I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people's spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call "soft" thinking.

The art of disappearing certainly has its own kind of value. In a strange way, in modern society we seem to be inhabiting the world of absence more than presence through the whole world of technology and virtual reality. Very often it seems that the driven nature of contemporary society is turning us into the ultimate harvesters of absence, that is, ghosts in our own lives.

You want to see how devoted we are to comfort? Walk into the average American home and hide the remote control, and watch what happens. Life without the remote control is an unbearable burden for the average American family. Then someone invented a TV with a beeper so that when you clap your hands, the remote control will beep until you find it.

This should come as no surprise. Intellectual, social, and political inertia are normally powerful forces. Modern thought and institutions, evolved and nurtured in the late Holocene, fit comfortably with a world of cheap energy and stable climate.

No pleasure is taken anywhere in modern buildings, and we find all men of true feeling delighting to escape out of modern cities into natural scenery. It would be well, if in all other matters, we were as ready to put up with what we dislike., for the sake of compliance with established law, as we are in architecture.

up by three metal desks, each with a computer

Jael feared it was true, that she was shallow, dissolute. Trendy.

One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour. VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE WAVES

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal. - Dr. Sofia Lamb

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

When Pharaoh had a dream he called in the experts and they told him how it was and how it would be in the kingdom, and that was right because he was the kingdom. When some of us have a dream, we take it to an expert and he tells us how it is in the country of ourselves. I had a dream that didn't need an expert. Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

a world soul he believes can resist the deadening assaults of modern corporate conformism.

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

Wir wissen eben nicht, was einer tun sollte, wir haben nicht mehr wir früher Antworten parat; wir wursteln uns bloß weiter durch und versuchen, nicht nachzudenken.

They felt the poorhouse would always be there, exempt from time. That some residents died, and others came, did not occur to them; a few believed that the name of the prefect was still Mendelssohn. In a sense the poorhouse would indeed outlast their homes. The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinion and even into those of our grandfathers.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.