quote: modern world

  • Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, Doritos confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us. – P. J. O’Rourke

  • It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. – George Burns

  • We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. – Jeff Marder

  • Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. – Jean Arp

  • Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets.  Does anyone else see the problem here? – Brock Fiant

  • Depressed?  Of course we’re all depressed.  We’ve been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant.  The further society “progresses”, the grander the scale of imbalance.  Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we’ll soon find government…

  • Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. – Charles Wagner

  • The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli… don’t seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. – John Fischer