Quotes of Modernity - somelinesforyou

“ It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ”

- Paul De Man

“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear — and even, in certain respects, would be — the most modern of critical movements. ”

- Paul De Man

“ Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ”

- Emile Lahud
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