69 Quotes About Modern-society

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".

...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Razvijeni kapitalizam je nadmašio samog sebe. Financijska poslovanja su i doslovce postala vrsta religiozne aktivnosti. Ako ćemo otvoreno, to je nov oblik misticizma. Ljudi kleče pred kapitalom, obožavaju njegovu moć, klanjaju se Porsheima i obožavaju sve ono što simbolizira blještavi sjaj Porshea. Jer to je posljednji mit koji je ostao na ovom svijetu. Današnji kapitalizam.

Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.

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 yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.