Modern Man Quotes

94 quotes by 76 authors

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. — Alexander Herzen
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead… — Elias Canetti
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a… — Tom Szaky
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… — Octavio Paz
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor,… — Pope Paul VI
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side — E F Schumacher
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to… — Lewis Mumford
One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who… — William E. Rees
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet
The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle.… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young… — Marion G. Romney
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality… — Francis Schaeffer
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

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