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

More information about this quote

Topic

Modern life

Author

Marshall Berman

Source

All That Is Solid Melts into Air

Genre

Economical literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Marshall Berman about modern life: “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us…”
Download
A quote by Marshall Berman about modern life: “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us…”
Download
A quote by Marshall Berman about modern life: “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1980s

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: Men Possessing Women

More information about this quote
Topic
Power of money Money

Author

Andrea Dworkin
Source
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Genre
Feminist literature
Language
English
Time
1981 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Putnam, 1981.