Top 194 Modernity Quotes & Sayings

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things change, but inside, things haven't changed, really. This is always the challenge of this kind of community, to make a harmony between the cultural traditions and the modernity of modern life.

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

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.

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

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries, although they feel like they really need it, at the same time it shakes the very fundament of the culture - there is always this challenge between the two.

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

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

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyway - there are more stylists.

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Modernity is not about dress codes.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy source.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.