#modern

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#fashioned #i #i am #just #man

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#decades #healthier #helped #improvements #investment

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#amazingly #amend #anglican #been #church

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gives #kill #modern #modern war #people

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#genocide #hold #perpetrators #postmodernism

We lack rituals in this modern world. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#modern #modern world #rituals #world

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#undefined #yet

Life goes on in the same manner, evil wins and peace is slaughtered. Change the channel, change the view, tired of the same reruns on the evening news. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#modern-society #news #poetry #change