“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” PeopleYearsHomeSchoolPastThreeGoneGenerationsModernReadyCooksMealsRelevantModern LifeOver The PastHome LifeThree GenerationsProcessed FoodTakeaways Author:Jamie Oliver
“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.” IfsMenShouldMayPersonsImportantWarEndsPovertyRolesModernReadyJudgingDiseaseApproachShould HaveImportant ThingsAncientDefenseTrialsReasonablePermitAccusedBenchesModern ManDocksAcquittal Author:C. S. Lewis
“anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.” ModernReadyPressesAncientAverageCommandAgreementPublishersAbusive Author:Dora Russell
“The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.” WayBodySpiritOrderPassionFearModernReadyDeterminePhilosopherLegsHarmKneesMusclesRemoveIncomparable Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.” WantWellsHomeLife IsWaitingEnjoyPleasureModernDangerAdventureReadyComfortBedHorseSurpriseObstaclesAbsenceExcellentEaseCharmReachingDestinationMisfortunesFatigueModern LifeSupperExcursions Author:Theophile Gautier
“I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.” ThinkingMenSaidStatesForeverModernDivineReadyPerformancesIntenseContactEnjoymentDimensionsSecularBureaucracyHarborsOmnipotencePurposelessness Author:Slavoj Žižek