Quotes About Modernity Vs Tradition

#1. Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#2. 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.

Octavio Paz

#3. In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Alexander Kluge

#5. Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

Loretta Swit

#6. When I'm driving the race track, it's all about repetition.

Helio Castroneves

#7. Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

Francois-Henri Pinault

#8. The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Jose Andres

#9. You're a pickpocket right? That's cool. But you don't do it for the money, do you?"
"Maybe the end." I said abruptly.
"The end?"
"What will happen to me in the end. What happens to people who live the way I do? That's what I'd like to know.

Fuminori Nakamura

#10. The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.

Douglas Coupland

#11. Yeah, let's keep the peace going.

Avril Lavigne

#12. From time to time, i think of him watching me
from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy
from a jar. i remember thanking him each time
the session was done. but mostly what i see
is a human hand reaching down to lift
a pebble from my tongue

Tracy K. Smith

#13. I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. It is rare in today's turbulent world to find a city that so harmoniously mixes tradition and modernity, without enslaving itself to either one.

Margie Rynn

#15. You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Theodore Bikel

#16. The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.

Harvey Cox

#17. What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Niko Besnier