229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Irving Howe
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Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.
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- Author E.B. White
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There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.
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- Author Marcus Sedgwick
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The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.
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- Author DON SANTO
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Today's generation is more informed. So think through before you lie to them.
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- Author Amadeo Bordiga
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The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
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- Author Sherwood Anderson
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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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- Author Wendy Wasserstein
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In the world of The Age of Innocence, a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.
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- Author Zygmunt Bauman
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t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To understand "progress": all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern, never natural or historical.
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