I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s where there wasn't texting social media iPhones or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

I love the modern technology now.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology and I marvel at it all the time.

You know I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

Anyone who has to fight even with the most modern weapons against an enemy in complete command of the air fights like a savage against modern European troops under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

As thy days so shall thy strength be which in modern language may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Academe n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression and sort of as a result these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

As I get older I think contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

In modern society where most people live in cities and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society and we don't know the cause.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation for want of a better word of mundane things.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely repressive justice.

Land: A part of the earth's surface considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Our modern society - especially in the West and especially now - reveres youth.

People who work together will win whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.