Modernity And Postmodernity Quotes

#1. If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

Genevieve Bell

#2. Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Stella Benson

#3. I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

#4. What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?

Nirmala Srivastava

#5. I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

#6. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

Chaim Weizmann

#7. The only better thing than a unicorn, is a gay unicorn.

Lady Gaga

#8. The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Thomas C. Oden

#9. Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

James Lee Burke

#10. It's 2006, why are they still using the index finger?

Karl Pilkington

#11. We should not forget Adam Smith's perspicuous observation that the "masters of mankind" - in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England - never cease to pursue their "vile maxim": "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.

Noam Chomsky

#12. With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.

Denis Johnson

#13. Lightning
doesn't leave you enlightened
- good to know that

Matsuo Basho

#14. I think we think in terms of stories.

David Mitchell

#15. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins