Quotes of: Modern-man Keyword

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Corin Nemec

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Robert Winston

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Ambrose Bierce

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Frank A. Clark

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatnes...

Moravagine

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion; but at the mention ...

Reflections of a Physicist

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

I want a man who watches me walk away.

Modern Happiness

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

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

There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presence of later-stage modernity. Chris...

After Modernity What?: Agenda for Theology

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day and have their dealings with other men is c...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The Meaning of Madness

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has ...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.

A Modern Utopia

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

Richard Flanagan

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey