Antimodernism Quotes

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
― René Guénon

“The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.”
― John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In short, the summer camp should best be read not as a simple rejection of modern life, but, rather, as one of the complex negotiations of modernity taking place in mid-twentieth century Canada.”
― Sharon Wall, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

“The revolution of science and technology has in the minds of most people either overturned God as the last moral principle or even more often, has turned him into an unruly liberal who no one listens to anymore.”
― Kai Murros, Vallankumous ja sen toteuttaminen modernissa yhteiskunnassa

“Being antimodern doesn’t mean conservative or traditionalist.

It has nothing to do with being nostalgic about the past. But it has nothing to do with nihilism, relativism, or knee-jerk contrarianism either.

Being antimodern means to be nostalgic about the future.

It’s about reinventing tradition, bridging the gap between the sacred and the profane, sympathetically merging timeless truths with modern drama.

The goal is to be totally avant-garde yet cemented in tradition.”
― Vizi Andrei, The Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design