“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.” HandsWould BeChoicesChanceCasesModernConsequenceHistoricalConservativeCarefulGood ManMuseumsProbabilityTake A ChanceAudacious Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.” FeelsAbleSocialGrowsInterestChanceSpacePayRolesCuttingShareModernIndustryDemandDirectFinancialUglyCommandMagazinesAdsBrighterSurgeonsCoverageAdvertisementsCosmeticsSocial Roles Author:Naomi Wolf
“If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.” IfsMayChanceModernNotionConservativeChances Are Author:Isabel Paterson
“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!” MenChanceModernTaxesProfitMotiveEconomistModern ManProfit Motive Author:Peter Drucker
“Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.” MenGivingBelieveMadeRealChristianFormValuesWaterChanceModernWorstHe ManOceanTreatsEnvironmentalMade ItExploitsPragmaticModern ManReal ValueCrass Author:Francis Schaeffer
“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.” PeopleWayMaySelfSeemsIndividualChanceCommonModernBecomingAuthorityMajorityAcceptedCommon SenseObediencePropagandaConformityIrrationalEvidentConsensusObedientStand AloneGood ChanceSusceptibilityObedience To Authority Author:David Edward