Quote by Anthony Giddens
"Patience is increasingly difficult in modern societies organized around speed and immediate gratification."
More from Anthony Giddens
"Modernity is a reflexive civilisation—the first civilisation that has to live with the knowledge that all its institutions are human creations."
"We are not imprisoned by history; we are freed by it."
"The more we know about how the world works, the less we can take for granted."
"Trust is not blind faith. It is a form of practical engagement with the world."