M Quotes
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“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.”
Source: Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life
“Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.”
“Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel”
“Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.”
Source: Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910
“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”
“Modern culture rewards surface-level uniqueness, such as appearance, career path, or social media presence, but punishes true divergence in worldview, thought, or behavior. What people often refer to as "being different" is usually just someone walking down the exact same path as everyone else, but with their steps slightly bent and curved rather than being direct and usual like others. So, although they appear as "individuals" from the outside, inside, they are actually a herd of the same kind of sheep blindly following each other. This is conformity within “individuality.” And this disguise is the thing that gives the tool for the Westerners to call themselves "freedom fighters.”
“Modern culture rewards the loud, the fast, and the visible. It mistrusts the silent, the slow, and the mysterious. What cannot be monetized is rendered irrelevant, and what cannot be digitized is deemed nonexistent. And so, truth becomes noise, authenticity becomes brand, and pain becomes content.”
“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.”
“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”
“Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.”
“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”
“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.”
“Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.”
“Modern dancing is old fashioned.”
“Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.”
“Modern dating is like hosting for a dinner that has been pushed back from 7pm to 9pm. You do not want to put the duck in the oven too early and you don't want to eat a full meal while you're waiting for your late dinner. But you also get hungry in the meantime. You decide to snack. You start out pretty healthy with some baby carrots, then decide those carrots need some ranch, shift to something more substantial like a hotpocket, and next thing you know you're eating nutella out of the jar. The demise in the quality of the food does not sit well with you and suddenly you're wondering why you decided to snack in the first place.
Such is the life of the modern single who hopes to find love but not too soon.”
Source: Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome
“Modern dating was a labyrinthine manscape riddled with trolls, bros, haters, and selfie-obsessed divos.”
Source: In Every Dark Corner
“Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Modern day meal plans, are recipes for disaster.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.”
“Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.”
“Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn't the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn't pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.”
“Modern design is about realigning your priorities to help keep you focused on the important things in life.”
Source: Rethink: The Way You Live
“Modern dictators exploit the vulnerability of the young jobless but educated citizens to suppress resistance. A young graduate, out of lack of better alternative, agrees to be a purveyors of deceit, a cesspool of vices, employed to spread a plague of lies, poisoning the minds of the citizenry. The aim: to entangle the people in a political incest with their oppressors. The reward? Mere peanuts to fuel the propaganda machine, all at the cost of true democracy, principled leadership, and just governance.”
“Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.”
“Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.”
“Modern diversions focuses our awareness and attention so intently on external stimuli that our inner needs and ambitions fade from view. This suggests that the failure of many individuals to realize their dreams is not typically a result of ineptitude or a lack of talent. Instead, it’s often rooted in a deficiency of self-connection.”
Source: THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being
“Modern drug based medicine is as incomplete as a novel written with three vowels. As discordant as a symphony constructed using only some of the notes. High dose nutritional therapy is the much needed missing part of our vocabulary of healthcare. The fight against disease needs all the help it can get.”
Source: Fire Your Doctor! How to Be Independently Healthy
“Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.”
“Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.”
“Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.”
Source: Timescape
“Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.”
“Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.”
“Modern economy is the antithesis of sustainability.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.”
“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”
Source: The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)
“Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.”
“Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”
“Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.”
“Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.”
Source: Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul
“Modern education—the intentional
gateway to the vicious cycle of
influence.”
“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”
“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Modern environments seem more likely than some previous environments to lead to this sort of malfunctioning. They permit, for example, a degree of social isolation that was unknown to our ancestors.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.”
Source: The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture
“Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.”
“Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy