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The moderns do not realize modernity.
Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
Modernity is the most transient of qualities.
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy source.
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
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.
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.
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
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.
I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.
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.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.