You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
quote by Ulrich Beck
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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.
quote by Alexander Kluge
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Time and Eternity
Where the woods and ploughlands
of tradition and modernity
run into the never-ending
deserts of eternity,
there I have my daily task
while time smoothly passes,
spooning the eternal sands
into hour glass.
Keep Humour
Face the distress of modernity with humour,
And describe it to your professor.
He will help and his willing support
Has let you face the world that exists
With magnificence and beauty.
A beauty is inside the world
When it has been exercised by leaders
Who remake it, fashion it and never molest it.
Humour is the ability to stay where you are
And not involve yourself in politics.
Face the distress of modernity with humour,
And describe it to your professor.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
quote by Theodor Adorno
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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
quote by Antonio Gramsci
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
quote by Ulrich Beck
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
quote by Emile Lahud
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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
quote by Robert Bork
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Neither Here, Nor There!
Values change, cultures change
Traditions change, thoughts change!
'Old' not made its exit yet
Nor 'new' made its entry right!
Tradition struggles
Modernity haunts!
Neither here, nor there I am
Unable to make out where I stand!
Betwixt I remain confused
'Old' in me pulls me that side
'Youth' in me pushes me this side
Know not when I be transfused!
Pains of confusion
Pangs of revulsion
Make life a miserable plight
Amidst this gloom' Lead kindly light'
poem by Subbaraman N V
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
quote by Alexander Haig
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Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
quote by Rowan D. Williams
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
quote by Paul de Man
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ""modernity"" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
quote by Paul de Man
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I denounce it
Trapped in the wordly matters
Earning, spending
Wishing more and more
Earning by hook or by crook
To satisfy the snoberry of modernity
If it is life
I denounce it
For it keeps one away from God.
poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
quote by Charles Baudelaire
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