Modern man Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila Download Open image ““When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.”” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern man
“A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free.” — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
“A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.” — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.” — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“..and the only law, that there need be you shall not take away the free from any man though different he.” — Malcolm Watts Copy Share Image
“If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.” — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
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… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it. — James May Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud,… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
