Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
“Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.” — Francis Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
A lot of men I have spoken to have said it's very confusing being a modern man. You want to be sensitive… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls.… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“I look at our modern mania for educational credentials as a kind of idol—a thing so burnished and glittery that sometimes the… — Elizabeth Scalia Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Real consciousness is touch. Thought is getting out of touch. The crux of the whole problem lies here, in the duality of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
“The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.” — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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