Modern Society Quotes

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." "The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted" "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." "I think the evidence is now clear. We are living in an artificial world of human suffering and technocratic tyranny" "Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle" "We live in different times and it's cool to be yourself" "We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations." "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."