"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro..."
- Anthon St. Maarten
"But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the who..."
- Ali Smith
"Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet d..."
- Alexei Maxim Russell
"Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long..."
- Joanna Runciman
"My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal"
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the..."
- Milan Kundera
"the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
- Oscar Wilde
"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."
- George Orwell
"Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future."
- Vikram Roy
"There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!"