Critique Of Modernity Quotes

#1. It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.

Sverker Sorlin

#2. The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Michel Foucault

#3. It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

Jack London

#4. I grew up in a very toxic home.

Bethenny Frankel

#5. Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

Gary Zukav

#6. God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

#7. Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Frederick Lenz

#8. [Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

John Maynard Keynes

#9. I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

Ilona Andrews

#10. Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Dan Simmons