Quotes About Modern

Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology rushed us ever forward, and simple civility - a certain kindness and care - got sacrificed.

those phones have become adult pacifiers.

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

Just like I didn't dare tell Jack that I was falling in love with him when I was down in Texas, wanting to be a modern woman who's supposed to be able to handle the casual nature of these kinds of relationships. I'm never supposed to say, to Jack or anyone else, what makes you think I'm so rich that you can steal my heart and it won't mean a thing?

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

It will be evident to you that I am here controverting the most cherished tradition of modern philosophy, shared alike by the school of empiricists which derives from Hume, and the school of transcendental idealists which derives from Kant.

Be a child of your times!

He also knows he is and will be being recorded by CCTV cameras on both sides of the station. He knows these are the kinds of cameras that don't know anything, don't show anything beyond surface. He knows that what they do is the stupid new way of knowing everything.

Végül is elég kellemes halottnak lenni. Nagyon alulértékelik a modern nyugati világban.

Here's the one thing I now know for sure after this very long trip: Evidence really is an ethical issue, the most important ethical issue in a modern democracy. If you want justice, you must work for truth. And if you want to work for truth, you must do a little more than wish for justice.

Evidence really is an ethical issue, the most important ethical issue in a modern democracy. If you want justice, you must work for truth. And if you want to work for truth, you must do a little more than wish for justice.

Kad su drevni narod stvarali bogove na svoju sliku, bojali su se i bili ponizni pred njima. U današnje doba, Bog se boji ljudi.

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.

Repugnance at the power of the people, at the fact that the popular taste should rule in all arenas of life, is very rare in a modern democracy. One of the intellectual charms of Marxism is that it explains the injustice or philistinism of the people in such a way as to exculpate the people, who are said to be manipulated by corrupt elites.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Even though the relationship of cigarettes to disease is today perhaps the epiphenomenal fact of modern medicine, demonstrating this connection required a fundamental transformation in medical ways of knowing in the mid-twentieth century.

Te advierto que el amor libre se está pasando de moda muy deprisa.

Our new concept of just power argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, not for altruistic reasons, but because it is the only sustainable way that states can promote progress and stability in a globalised world.

They knew that it was not their faith that validated Christ's resurrection, as many of today's modern theologians teach and preach, but that it was his physical resurrection that validated their faith.

A defining characteristic of modern San Franciscans is our disinclination to judge fellow citizens based on their sexual habits or preferred methods of intoxication. About everything else, however, we are extra judge-y.

Ciò dimostra che al giorno d'oggi la mancanza di pedanteria viene scambiata per furto deliberato.

L'époque où nous vivons regorge de ces idiots intelligents dont la société fait regretter les braves imbéciles du temps jadis.