Modern Man Quotes
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Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
— Milton S. Eisenhower
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 listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
— Pope Francis
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
— Hans Jonas
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
— Michael Leunig
Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
— Thomas Merton
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
— Carl Jung
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
— Shelley Winters
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
— Erich Fromm
The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.
— Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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.
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
— Anne Fortier
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
— Mircea Eliade
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
— Stewart Udall
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
— Allen Carr
Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.
— Robert Heilbroner
The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.
— Lynne McTaggart
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
— Henry Van Dyke
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
— Norbert Wiener
Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.
— C. G. Jung
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful? — Sarah Slean
There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.
— Billy Graham
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
— Robert Winston
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
— Bertrand Russell
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
— Bertrand Russell
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
— G. Stanley Hall
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
— Nicholas Eberstadt
I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.
— Erich Maria Remarque
I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.
— David Suchet
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
— Fernand Leger
Cheeseburgers. I'm fairly certain they're the most wonderful food invented by modern man.
— Stacey Jay
Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E.F. Schumacher
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
What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.
— Tessa Dare
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.
— Billy Graham
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
— William S. Burroughs
Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.
— Harry Anderson
The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.
— Charlie Pierce
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
— Will Cuppy
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
— Honore De Balzac
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You are the part of rat race because you are letting them treat you like a rat. This is the modern definition of a slave.
— Saurabh Sharma
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
— Vaclav Havel
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
— Diana Wynne Jones
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
— Helen Rowland
In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.
— Meghna Pant
If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
— Christian Morgenstern
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
An utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email
— Mhairi McFarlane
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
— Joseph Goebbels
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
— Michael Leunig
Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated
— Paul Valery
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.
— Leo Tolstoy
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!
— Peter Drucker
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
— Frank A. Clark
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
— Owen D. Young
The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man
— Rabindranath Tagore
The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.
— Francis Stuart Campbell
Modern man is a hard-working human ...
— Ed Wood
Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy
— Christopher McDougall
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
— Francis Schaeffer
