Modern Man Quotes
94 quotes by 76 authors
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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
— Frank A. Clark
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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
— Rama Swami
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
— Nicholas Eberstadt
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
— Loren Eiseley
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
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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
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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
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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
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Who Wrote These Modern Man Quotes
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