Modern Conveniences Quotes

• Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Beauty, Dream, Humanity

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Taken, Knowledge, Mind

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Life, Profound, Survival

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Comeback, Insult

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Wall, Home, Heart

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.138, W. W. Norton & Company

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• With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Impact, Negative

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• Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go without getting possessed. It was an interesting time to be Apollite or Daimon. But that was before we discovered civilization and modern conveniences. Before the human world developed enough to where we could exist at night under the pretense of being one of them. Apollites owning businesses and houses. Daimons playing Nintendo. What is this world coming to? (Thanatos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Dark, Night

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• The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use any modern convenience to be talking to other people, because I like my time to think. I go to the garden in the morning, and this time, I'm thinking ideas, I'm not drawing, I'm thinking.

  Sergio Aragones

  Morning, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Catholic, Mind

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

  Adrien Brody

  Military, Real, Exercise

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

  Walt Kelly

  Modern, Goodness, Convenience

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