45 Quotes About Modern-world
- Author Steven Magee
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With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.
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- Author Evan Sutter
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Mental illness is a bigger problem than obesity and cardiovascular diseases in the modern western world but still we pay no homage to the philosophy of watching what we watch. We only worry about what we put in the body in the form of food and care very little, if at all, with what we consume in our minds.
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- Author Joshy A J
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This civilization already reached the top of the bell curve and currently is in decline. If you believe it is progressive,yes.It is. But regressive progression
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- Author Joshy A J
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Rights and responsibilities always go hand in hand. Do remember the responsibilities you deny could very well be someone else's rights
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- Author Christopher Langan
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We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.
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- Author Ryszard Legutko
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There are four things that an aristocrat should contribute to the modern world to countervail its ideological tendencies: the rejection of historical inevitability; the defense of the ethics of obligations; an acceptance of the body/soul dualism with the soul taking the dominant position; and a classical concept of shame. All of them are interrelated.
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- Author Idries Shah
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Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
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- Author Lydia Millet
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…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.
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