Top 9 Modernity Quotes - Quoted Daily

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

Risk, Climate, Modernity

Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Modernism, Modernity, Industry

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Categories, Modernity, Qualitative

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.218, Verso

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Law, Ethics, Modernity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Deceiving, Century, Modernity

Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Old Fashioned, Grows, Modernity

Robertson Davies (1982). “High spirits”, Penguin Group USA

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Modernity, Exclusive

"More Questions with Queen Rania". Q&A, content.time.com. May 11, 2007.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Realizing, Modernity

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Quality, Modernity, Transient

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