Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. Votes: 4
Nassim Nicholas TalebModernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur Votes: 4
Nassim Nicholas TalebModernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. Votes: 4
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Votes: 2
Ulrich BeckThe challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. Votes: 2
Antonio GramsciDemocracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. Votes: 2
Emile LahoudThe risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. Votes: 0
Anthony GiddensNothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMy biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Votes: 0
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