Modern Quotes - Page 8

• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Errors, Intellectual, Environmental

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Dog, Men, Choices

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• Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Cities, Achievement

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• How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Differences, Risk

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• Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

  Denis Hayes

  Humility, Yesterday, Environmental

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• Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the
  creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Creativity, Persistence, Scientific Method

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

  Louis Pasteur

  Laughing, One Day, Philosopher

  "The Literary Digest" Magazine, October 18, 1902.

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• Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Beautiful, Soap, Modern Life

  David Colvin, Aubrey Beardsley (1998). “Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

  John M. Perkins

  Luxury, Survival, Essentials

  John M. Perkins (1993). “Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development”, p.93, Baker Books

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• More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

  Clive Thompson

  People, Tools, Computer

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• Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

  Shereen El Feki

  Civilization, Islam, Ancient

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• I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Numbness, Violence

  "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Book by Simon Reynolds, 1988.

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• This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.

  Werner Herzog

  Artist, Echoes, Soul

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Issues, Important

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• I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Growing Up, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.

  Peter Stormare

  Dream, Kids, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

  Shirley Manson

  Tragedy, Records, Care

  "Shirley Manson and Butch Vig Answer 20 Questions for the 20th Anniversary of ‘Garbage’". Interview with Rachel Brodsky, www.spin.com. August 13, 2015.

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• I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Fall, Kissing, Thinking

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

  John Irving

  Believe, Wrestling, Would Be

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Expectations, Five Senses, Obligation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Style, Mixing

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

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• The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

  Larry Fessenden

  Real, Thinking, Frustration

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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