Quotes About Modern

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

Given enough time, the mobiles would train the eyes to look without seeing.

A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.

Living under liquid modern conditions can be compared to walking in a minefield: everyone knows an explosion might happen at any moment and in any place, but no one knows when the moment will come and where the place will be.

la vida social ya se ha transformado en una vida electrónica o cibervida

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

Moderne folkemord, liksom moderne kultur generelt, er gartnerarbeid.

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.

All modern work on unification may be said to represent a program of geometrization that resembles Einstein's earlier attempts, although the manifold subject to geometrization is larger than he anticipated and the quantum framework of the program would not have been to his liking.

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

We are wanderers, place shifters, the cosmic homeless. This is not a modern truth, and Achilles is not some new kind of existentialist hero. It is the oldest truth of all, surviving uncomfortably into the modern world of cities and overkings, diplomacy and accommodation, the power structures and the proliferation of stuff which the Mediterranean world provides.