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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
— Richard Flanagan
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
— Bertrand Russell
Cheeseburgers. I'm fairly certain they're the most wonderful food invented by modern man.
— Stacey Jay
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
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
— William S. Burroughs
The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.
— Charlie Pierce
The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.
— Robert S. De Ropp
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
— Stephen Covey
The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.
— Richard Luckhurst
Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.
— Billy Graham
Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E.F. Schumacher
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
— C.S. Lewis
— 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
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
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 only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy
— Christopher McDougall
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
— Helen Rowland
If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
— Christian Morgenstern
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
— Joseph Goebbels
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 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
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
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
— Will Cuppy
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice
— Boris Pasternak
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.
— Francis Stuart Campbell