Quotes About Postmodernists

#1. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

Richard M. Rorty

#2. Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

#3. I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Russell Smith

#4. The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Gad Saad

#6. We [postmodernists] can safely navigate the danger of life, detached from the true and everlasting dangers of obedience and commitment, for nothing has the right to make a claim on our souls.

R. R. Reno

#7. Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles.

E.K. Johnston

#8. I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martin Van Creveld

#9. Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other.
The postmodernists are very good at pointing out the pretensions of the modernists. And the modernists are very good at pointing out the incoherence of the postmodernists.

Douglas Wilson

#10. Women should have absolute access to capital.

Donald Trump

#11. The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much.

Albert Camus

#12. And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Waylon Jennings

#13. It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

Dale Dauten

#14. Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

Marianne Williamson

#15. Significant thins shouldn't begin or end at Applebee's.

Matthew Norman

#16. The Impossible Will Not always Only be Possible If we Ourselves Create IT.

Jan Jansen

#17. I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Tyra Banks

#18. If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

Rick Smolan

#19. Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.

Aubrey De Grey

#20. I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Jojo Moyes

#21. Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

Noam Chomsky