Quotes of: Modernization Keyword

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

Clara Zetkin

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

Paddy Ashdown

In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground, mountains spewing deathly hot lava, the glow of the moon, the burning heat of the sun, the twinkling of the sta...

Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the discrediting of objectivity is especially relevant to understanding the poem, because the problem of knowledge...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life whic...

Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so ...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transfo...

Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson

Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice a...

Way of the (Modern) World

Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and inscribed within space....

Life

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Culpa Innata

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.

Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

The Ethics of Authenticity

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Foucault's Pendulum

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

A Familiar Rain

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Modernity kills ghostly romance ("The Undying Thing")

Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Tom Shales