1.   Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies, but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world.

2.   Culturally speaking, there is no place left to hide in the modern world.

3.   Death is the unforgivable sin of modernity, and the modern world will have nothing to do with her.

4.   Equally important, it does not correspond to the facts of the modern world.

5.   Extreme nationalism is the single greatest danger to peace in the modern world.

6.   For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world.

7.   For too long we Christians have heard the modern world blowing its own trumpet.

8.   If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed.

9.   In the modern world they are being exploited by businessmen with little interest in the long term.

10.   In the shorthand of the modern world, business is seen as dynamic, civil society as conservative.