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«The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.»
«Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.»
«One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.»
«We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.»
«Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another.»
«There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it»
Author: Roland Barthes (Critic) | Keywords: present day
«Be intent upon the perfection of the present day»
Author: William Law | About: Perfection | Keywords: intent, present day
«The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.»