I'm Lord of the wasteland, a modern man of steel. I gather darkness to please me, and I command you to kneel. — KISS Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James Copy Share Image
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“...through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. (...)… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by… — John Kao Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“The problem which confronts us as we approach modern man today is not how we are to change Christian teaching in order… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Modern man's narrow-mindedness is best shown in his belief that there is no riddle before him. His wisdom is the sum of… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Devaluation of the Earth, hostility towards the Earth, fear of the Earth: these are all from the psychological point of view the… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs. — Steve Ilg Copy Share Image
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. — Robert S. de Ropp Copy Share Image
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
