Modernity Quotes

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

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

Modernity is a qualitative,
not a chronological,
category.

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

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

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.