Best Modern Man Quotations
94 Modern Man quotes by 75 unique authors
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When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may…
— Albert Camus
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
— Anne Fortier
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much…
— Erich Fromm
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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
— Erich Fromm
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It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
— Will Cuppy
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Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
— Michael Leunig
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Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
— Michael Leunig
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The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
— Richard Flanagan
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The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the man of the…
— Sorin Cerin
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The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the man of the…
— Sorin Cerin
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We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices
— Alexander Fennis
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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
— Unknown Author
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The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man.
— Vikrant Parsai
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I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've…
— Robin Day
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I'm Lord of the wasteland, a modern man of steel. I gather darkness to please me, and I command you to kneel.
— Kiss
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