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." "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good" "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society" "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often." "Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity." "I think we are increasingly identifying with the visual because it is more immediate than corrective" "We consume, but we are not satisfied" "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality" "I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding." "We are digital minds in an analog world." "How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home."