Modernity Quotes - Page 5

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  Tony Kushner

  Rocks, Progress, Desire

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.275, Theatre Communications Group

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Development, States, American Society

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

  Eric Kandel

  Artist, Medicine, Steps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Views, Work Out

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Dog, America, Usual

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• The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Challenges, Becoming, Illusion

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• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Islamic, Russia, Use

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

  Vera Wang

  Wedding, Opportunity, Dresses

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• Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Perspective

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Leap”, p.52, Vintage

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• What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Real, Dark, Light

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• Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

  Dan Savage

  Gun, White, America

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.180, Penguin

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• Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Commitment, Dedication

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  Paul de Man

  Desire, Wipe, Departure

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• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Marriage, Gone

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• How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

  Andre Bazin

  Impact, Years, Innovation

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• I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization

  Peter L. Berger

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

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• It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

  Bob Geldof

  Ebola, Tragedy, World

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• The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

  Roger Scruton

  Order, Voice, Achievement

  "A Political Philosophy". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  I. M. Pei

  Times Have Changed, Roots, Want

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• My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

  Emir Kusturica

  Heart, Cutting, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Waiting, Redemption

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

  Theodore Bikel

  Order, Mixtures, Needs

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• I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

  Pico Iyer

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Thinking

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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