Modern Culture Quotes - Page 2

• Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

  William McDonough

  Tragedy, Culture, Warning

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• My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Father, Real, Ideas

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• The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

  Meyer Schapiro

  Art, Culture, Movement

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• Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Past, Generations

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

  Theophilus London

  Breathing, Fire, Dragons

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• While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.

  Richard R. Nelson

  Book, Thinking, Technology

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• The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

  Mu Xin

  Wind, Principles, Culture

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• Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Skills, Achievement

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• What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's always been there but it's become somewhat obscure to us given the stressful, fast-paced modern culture in which we live. I'm also inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

  Brad Willis

  Healing, Profound, Inspire

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.

  Albert Mohler

  Biblical, Tasks, Doctrine

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down

  Tom Selleck

  Relationship, Men, Thinking

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• The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Glasses, House, Church

  ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN (1956). “THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH”

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• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  Randall Jarrell

  Thinking, Culture, Definitions

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 391), 1993.

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• If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.

  Wade Davis

  Animal, Flames, Opposites

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• The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Reading, Ideas

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• Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, Issues, Culture

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.119, CUA Press

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• The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

  Alexander Lowen

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Stress

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• In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Believe, Feelings, Religion

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Solitude, Needs

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• Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

  Georg Simmel

  Subjectivity, Energy, Culture

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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• Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings but all I saw were fragments, deformed creatures with too much eye or too much ear. This is what the modern culture of specialized intellect-the kind of one-sidedness that banausic utilitarianism alone can value-works so hard to produce.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Eye, Too Much

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• Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

  Ice T

  Play, Creating, Sound

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• Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reading, Culture, Half

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

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