M Quotes
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“Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.”
“Modern feminism needs a little less dogma and a lot more heresy.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“Modern food may be the most compelling lie humans have ever told.”
Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
“Modern formulaic society will try to make you "normal," rushing to call pseudoscientific anything you can do that they can’t.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Modern healthcare has largely turned into a drug company scam.”
“Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.”
“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel. That is indeed the "knowledge" of the European historians who themselves "invented" history and then put it to good use. There is not even an inkling of suspicion that it may have been the other way around, that maybe it was the world that made Europe.”
Source: ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age
“Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.”
“Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.”
“Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (...) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(...) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(...) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage.”
Source: Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales
“Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.”
Source: Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century
“Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.”
“Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.”
“Modern humans believe in books based on a series of evidence which has occurred in the past.”
“Modern humans' group.minded interdependence thus served to spread human sympathy and helping to all in the group, best characterized as a sense of loyalty to the group. As a consequence, there emerged in modern humans a distinctive in-group/out-group psychology.”
Source: A Natural History of Human Morality
“Modern humans have lost this connection with the stars. Not only do we have more diversions, but it is also the case that most people do not look up to the night sky anymore.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Modern Hymn for Aphrodite
O' tongue-
sharp blade.
O' bleeding
heart.
She of many
names given
and taken.
Lady of the
Unknown.
Lady of the
Daybreak.
You bare-
knuckled
mother.
Righteous
anger and holy
grief.
You necessary
rage.
Born not of
the cruel sea
but of your
own hand.
Self-made
splendor.
Spark of
creation.
The universe
hums in your
wake.
You leave
nothing
undisturbed.”
Source: Aphrodite Made Me Do It
“Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Modern ilerlemenin vebası: kolonileştirme, ticaret, beleş Kutsal Kitap'lar, savaş, hastalıklar, takma kol ve bacaklar, fabrikalar, köleler, delilik, nevrozlar, psikozlar, kanser, frengi, verem,
kansızlık, grevler, lokavtlar, kıtlık, hiçlik, boşluk, tedirginlik, kavga, umutsuzluk, sıkıntı, intihar, hileli iflas, damar sertliği, megalomani, şizofreni, fıtık, kokain, asit prusik, boğucu gaz bombaları, gözyaşartıcı gazlar, kuduz köpekler, kendi kendine telkin, kendi kendini zehirleme, psikoterapi, hidroterapi, elektrik masajları, elektrik süpürgeleri, konserve et, besleyici haplar, hemoroidler, kangren... Artık ıssız ada yok. Cennet yok. Göreceli mutluluk da yok. Kendilerinden delicesine kaçmaya çabalayan insanlar; kurtuluşu arayarak buzulların altında ya da tropikal bataklıklarda, ya da tırmanarak Himalaya'lara ya da boğularak stratosferde... XVIII. Yüzyıl insanları, böyle bir son özlüyorlardı. Sonunda bıktılar bundan. Başladıkları yere dönmek istediker, dölyatağına yeniden gelmek.”
Source: Black Spring
“Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.”
“Modern infidelity is different than traditional infidelity and sits on top of the romantic ideal that you find "the one" and that if you have everything that you need at home, you have no reason to go looking elsewhere. And if you have an affair, it's a symptom of a flawed relationship. If you don't apply the deficiency model to the relationship, then you apply it to the person. The person who strays is selfish, immature, addicted suffers from insecure attachment. And the person who doesn't stray is the committed partner: mature, stable, and non-selfish.”
“Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.”
“Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Modern interest in environmentalism is driven by a yearning to protect what we haven't ruined already, to conserve what we haven't used up, to restore as much as possible of what we're destroyed, and to devise ways of reconfiguring our lives so that civilization as we know it can be sustained through our children's lifetimes and beyond.”
Source: Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
“Modern international law follows closely a line which leads to the recognition of the right of native tribes to dispose freely of themselves and of their hereditary territory. In conformity with this principle, my Government would gladly adhere to a more extended rule, to be based on a principle which should aim at the voluntary consent of the natives whose country is taken possession of, in all cases where they had not provoked the aggression.”
Source: Acte général de la conférence de Berlin de 1885
“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.”
“Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.”
“Modern IT has many faces. The “art of possible” is phenomenal to rejuvenate IT.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Modern IT has many faces. Understanding the element of art in digital IT is for achieving the art of possible.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Modern IT has many faces. Understanding the element of art in digital IT is the first step for achieving the art of possible.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Modern Jewish authors readily admit that the rabbis of the early Christian times repudiated or reinterpreted all Jewish literature which could be produced in support of the claims of Jesus Christ, Himself a Jew, the last of the true Jews, and the one who from the beginning of time was destined to turn Judaism into a religion for all men of good will and not for just one particular race irrespective of the will, good or otherwise, of the members of that race. (E.g. Waxman: A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. I.)”
Source: The Reign of Antichrist: A Sourcebook of Catholic Prophecies about "The Man of Sin"
“Modern konut yapıları gibi bu yapıların mimarları da çoğunlukla korumasızdır. Söylemin aynı şekilde tekrarını garanti altına almak için, egemen anlatı çoğunlukla aynı mimarları gündeme getirir ve korur. Geri kalanlar ise korunmasız ve söylemsel olarak çıplak kalır. Onların sıradışılığını anlatacak, onlara bir anlamda "giysilerini geri verecek" biri/bir anlatı ortaya çıkıncaya kadar, bütün görünürlüklerine rağmen saklı kalırlar.”
Source: Mimarlar ve Apartmanları: Ankara'da Konut ve Barınma Kültüründen Örnekler
“Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.”
“Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.”
“Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.”
“Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
“Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.”
“Modern life conceals our need for diverse, wild, natural communities, but it does not alter that need.. if you want to feel what it is like to be human again, you should hunt, even if just once. Because that understanding, I believe, will propel a shift in how we view and interact with this world that we eat in. And the kind of food we demand, as omnivores, will never be the same.”
Source: Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained our ancestors for millennia.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.”
“Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.”
Source: The Mark and the Void
“Modern life is an interplay between chaos and clarity, where the pursuit of meaning lies not in what we achieve, but in how we connect—with ourselves, others, and the timeless truths that ground us.”
“Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.”
“Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stake to the planet.”
Source: My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
“Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking