Modern Times Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921) American sociologist
This strange disease of modern life. With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet, critic
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English writer, mathematician
The horror of the Twentieth Century is the size of each event and the paucity of its reverberation.
Norman Mailer (b. 1923) American author
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loud-speakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British author
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist, poet
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) American critic, editor, author
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) American psychologist
