#modern

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#built #clear #early #enough #fans

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#modern-life #beauty

Most modern comedy is crap. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#crap #modern #most

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#fully #mixture #modernity #need #order

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#function #masterpieces #modern #museum #old

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. ↗

— Mark Davis

#another #bailey #barbara #barbara boxer #being