#modern

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#citizen #did #europe #great #his

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

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#been #believe #breasts #flows #greece

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#undefined #yet

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#beautiful #clothes #him #i #i love

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

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows