126 Quotes About Modernism

The deep sorrow, sadness and disappointment of what modern civilization had become at the end of the cold war, is what triggered globalism and the idea of transhumanism.

There was no culture shock—though I may have gawked a little at the first short skirt I saw…and maybe the second one too—because even though I’d never stepped foot on U.S. soil, I knew this place. I’d seen it on screens my entire life.

The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't belong here or there. Lord have mercy!

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.At once repugnant and oppressive.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

In the reality of the modernism, modern technology, science, and other skills, why should I think and believe that justice and love are still blind?

Today, many Christians are no longer even aware of the basic teachings of the Faith, so there is a growing danger of missing the path to eternal life. However, it remains the very purpose of the Church to lead humanity to Jesus Christ, the light of the nations. In this situation, the question of orientation arises.

Many wonder today what purpose the Church still has in its existence, when even bishops prefer to be politicians rather than to proclaim the Gospel as teachers of the Faith. The role of the Church must not be watered down by trivialities, but its proper place must be addressed. Every human being has an immortal soul, which in death is separated from the body, hoping for the resurrection of the dead (CCC 366).

Insisting that architecture maintain such a profound lack of character without even the hint of any feeling is not a lack of position or an accidental design flaw but rather a commitment to a once progressive but now painfully outmoded position struggling to maintain its faded hegemony. What was once radical abstraction in pursuit of universality and utopia is today just banal accommodation in pursuit of free corporate expansion.