#modern world

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. ↗

— David Miliband

#economies #modern #modern world #power #responsibility

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. ↗

— Brad Holland

#because #careful #get #intellectuals #machinery

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#annihilation #broken #chain #come #dark

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#brought #business #christian #christian home #highlight

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#else #i #live #look #modern

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#capitalist #communist #does #economically #looks

We lack rituals in this modern world. ↗