Quotes · Skopia

27 quotes

Woodstock · 1969

★ 1.1

Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being.

Theodore Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905

★ 1.2

Economical literature · Philosophical literature

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

1982

★ 1.7

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Christmas · Comedy drama

You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Kris Kringle

Miracle on 34th Street · 1947

★ 1.8

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg

1965

★ 1.8

Poem · Magazine

Commuter-one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train, And then rides back to shave again.

E.B. White

1982

★ 1.9

Sociology

In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle · 1967

★ 3.4

Poem

In the deep windings of the grove, no more The hag obscene, and the grisly phantom dwell; Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar Of winds is heard the angry spirit's yell.

James Beattie

1774

★ 3.5

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

1966

★ 3.5

Newspaper

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

The Daily Telegraph · 1988

★ 3.5

Speech

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie

1988

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

Erich Fromm

1941

★ 3.5

Essay

Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1957

★ 3.5

Interview

The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion.

Sitting Bull

★ 3.5

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

No, I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat. What to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, what not to joke about. I want someone to tell me what to believe in, who to vote for, who to love and how to tell them.

Fleabag

Fleabag · 2019

★ 3.6

Song · Rock music

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot, With a pink hotel, A boutique, and a swinging hot spot.

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970

★ 3.7

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

Brooks Hatlen

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 3.7

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they’re just not talking about it or I am completely fucking alone.

Fleabag

Fleabag · 2016

★ 3.7

Novel

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1929

★ 3.8

Short story

It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

John Cheever

1978

★ 5.0

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