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
“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
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig 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 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
Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage?… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me ---I haven't the book here so I can't quote… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“The act of contemplation and what contemplates—to return to our own terminology—are essentially one with the pure Act, pure Being. On the… — Leo Schaya Copy Share Image
“Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half'… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Modern man became a Prometheus, believing himself a god capable of transforming anything and everything at will. “When God has become invisible… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“As Erich Fromm put it, “Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know… — Jean Paul Zogby Copy Share Image
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image