#modern

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#before #confluence #economic #financial #hit

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. ↗

— Alan Vega

#around #bands #enough #fulfill #get

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#drinkers #fan #fans #guess #i

The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people's historical experience is inessential to them, that it can be shed at will, makes it possible to argue more strongly for the Enlightenment's claim to universality: Muslims, as members of the abstract category "humans," can be assimilated or (as some recent theorist have put it) "translated" into a global ("European") civilization once they have divested themselves of what many of them regard (mistakenly) as essential to themselves. The belief that human beings can be separated from their histories and traditions makes it possible to urge a Europeanization of the Islamic world. And by the same logic, it underlies the belief that the assimilation to Europe's civilization of Muslim immigrants who are--for good or for ill--already in European states is necessary and desirable. ↗

— Talal Asad

#eurabia #europe #european #islam #modernity-tags-civilization

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#adapting #between #both #change #even

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#among #aristocratic #historic #i #incline

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#heads #modern #revolutionary #station #television

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#actor #also #basically #classical #great

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart? ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#beat #become #cool #cut #give

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#civilisation #devil #explanation #given #modern