Quotes About Modern

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

The reactionary is mistaken if he assumes that the democrat rejects his reasons but shares his repugnance. The modern world is a pigsty in whose morass modern man rolls happily.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

Modern man does not live in space and time, but in geometry and chronometry.

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

The modern mentality does not conceive that order can be imposed without resorting to police regulations.

Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie. The liquidation of a bourgeois class in the modern world is, in effect, nothing more than a slaughter that does not imply the abolition of a bourgeois mentality that already dominates all of society.

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

In its desire to gain the upper hand over democratic humanitarianism, modern Catholicism summarizes the two great commandments of the Gospel thus: You shall love your neighbor above all things.

Die moderne Literatur: dieses kolossale reaktionäre Unterfangen.

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

Modern literature: this colossal reactionary enterprise.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.