“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The only thing Luo was really good at was telling stories. A pleasing talent to be sure, but a marginal one, with… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Enslavement to God signifies liberation from all other forms of servitude, and although modern man may think that he is liberated, he… — Donald W. Flood Copy Share Image
“In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from… — Lama Govinda Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don’t know why. They… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s seemingly instinctive impulse to control women’s sexuality is not an intrinsic feature of human nature. It is a response to… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects.… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
