{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me.","author":"Stephen Fitzsimons","tags":["modern","modern-life","poetry","poetry"],"id":11109,"author_id":"Stephen+Fitzsimons"},{"text":"People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["clever","cleverness","currency","future","internet","internet-marketing","marketing","marketing","merit","meritocracy","modern","modern-life","modern-society","social-media"],"id":11212,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["foolishness","human-nature","modern-life","novels","writing"],"id":17104,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["hierarchy-of-needs","humor","humorous","humorous","maslow-s-hierarchy-of-needs","modern-life","needs-pyramid","positive-thinking","sarcastic","self-actualization","self-help"],"id":22688,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.","author":"Michael Harris","tags":["job","modern-life","technology"],"id":36886,"author_id":"Michael+Harris"},{"text":"There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["beauty","modern-life"],"id":40212,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["depressant","depression","depression","health","human","human-development","humanity","humanity-and-society","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world","population","prescription","prescription-drugs","prescription-medicines","usa","world"],"id":46709,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["internet-addiction","modern-life","modern-society","modernity","modernity-is-a-sickness","slavery","technology-addiction","technology-enchantment"],"id":50576,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Progress has not brought about universal happiness...","author":"Adam Leith Gollner","tags":["359","happiness","modern-life","progress","science"],"id":51182,"author_id":"Adam+Leith+Gollner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}