229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Joshua Krook
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In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.
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- Author Rana Dasgupta
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Ties are straightened and expressions banished.
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- Author Rana Dasgupta
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They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.
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- Author Paul C. Vitz
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It indicates where the problem lies for Descartes. It lies in other people.
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- Author Harvey Cox
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Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
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- Author Charles Bukowski
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I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
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- Author Paul Beatty
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Yes, being black is a full-time job: sometimes you are invisible, other times you are hyper-visible,” he says. “Sometimes you are welcome, other times you are not. The thermostat is always moving and you have to keep adapting to find some comfort level. Richard Pryor used to talk about going to Africa and people there telling him he was white. Even though he was black, he just wasn’t black enough.
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- Author Erwin Panofsky
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Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.
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- Author Eliza Manningham-Buller
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In al-Qaeda we see a terrorist grouping with, in many ways, a medieval ideology, employing today's technology to great advantage. It works in a thoroughly modern way, virtual, amorphous, franchised and unbounded by geography. It has recruited people from all over the world. It understands the power of images, both in its campaign of terror and in its recruitment and proselytising material. It skillfully exploits the instant communications and social networking of the IT age.
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