Modernity Has Failed Quotes

#1. I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

Erykah Badu

#2. You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Rajneesh

#3. In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.

Trinny Woodall

#4. If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Stuart Wilde

#5. I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

Alicia Vikander

#6. I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Mary Lasker

#7. 1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.

David Levering Lewis

#8. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed ... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.

Tony Campolo

#9. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Frederic Bastiat

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

Robert Bork

#11. You don't want to sound as though you used a Sharper Image catalogue for a thesaurus.

Renni Browne

#12. I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

Kim Jee-woon

#13. The truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. It was a pretty convincing

Barack Obama