Quotes About Modern

Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the secularism or the scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades the facts that the Germans at the time, especially in Prussia, were one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and that Germany's largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans, counted themselves among Hitler's staunchest followers.

It is Kant who made possible the sudden mushrooming of the Platonic collectivism in the modern world, and especially in Germany.

The hunger and hunt for identity is a driving force of the modern world. But the nature of the self in an age of simulacra, pseudonyms, avatars, gender/racial fluidity, "the wisdom of crowds," and online friends makes having an identity a massive maze of conquest and confusion.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

Will looked at Evie funny. Advertising? Yes. You've heard of it, haven't you? Swell modern invention. It lets people know about something they need. Soap, lipstick, radios—or your museum, for instance. We could start with a catchy slogan, like, 'The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult—we've got the spirit!

was an aesthetically pleasing, yet highly functional, combination of old and new.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.