Modern-society Quotes

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst...

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent —...

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern soci...

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurit...

Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awa...

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that pro...

...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

Of course. A new consciousness - I that that is the word,' said the old man after he had thought a m...

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us i...

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without fe...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even livi...