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> [“By time-honored esthetic and moral standards the knowing modern man, and woman, is a barely polite gangster; his machine-gun is his mind, ideas his bullets, power and possession his goals. The reduction of the real to the usable has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/by-time-honored-esthetic-and-moral-standards-the-knowing-modern-man/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

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## More by Seymour Krim

> [One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/one-life-was-never-quite-enough-for-what-i-had-in-mind/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

> [ Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful \[terms\] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/insanity-and-psychosis-can-no-longer-be-respected-as-meaningful-terms/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

> [“By time-honored esthetic and moral standards the knowing modern man, and woman, is a barely polite gangster; his machine-gun is his mind, ideas his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/by-time-honored-esthetic-and-moral-standards-the-knowing-modern-man/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

> [We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/we-know-all-along-that-time-is-squeezing-us-into-a-corner-while-we/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

> [That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/that-s-what-this-democracy-was-for-us-a-huge-supermarket-of-mass-man/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

> [It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-krim/it-is-still-your-work-or-role-that-finally-gives-you-your-definition/)

[Seymour Krim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-krim/)

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