#modern

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#coat #like #modern #people #proud

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#commercials #eaten #hood #little #modern

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

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#designer #fashion #i #i think #idea

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #calmer #christian #creates #decline

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