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Modern Man Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
- Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as…
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
- 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…
- Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
More Modern Man Quotes
- 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… — Lewis Mumford
- I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — E F Schumacher