Quotes with modernity

  • It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
  • The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

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  • Berenice Marlohe And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Paul De Man Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernard Arnault Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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