“The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.” HumansIdeasGoalHuman BeingsModernHighestConsciousFulfillmentTouchingConquestConsumedPursuedPinnacle Author:Robert Briffault
“On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.” WayHumansCausesHuman BeingsModernConceptsFormulasReplacedProbabilityModern ScienceDiscarded Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.” MenHumansMayDoeThreeHuman BeingsShareModernTypeBehaviorToolsBonesTeethCharacteristicsBiologyWildlifeApesHomo SapiensModern ManPrimatesPrototype Book:Gorillas in the Mist Source: Gorillas in the Mist
“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.” TryingHumansLongHuman BeingsAttentionHalfModernAverageAttention Span Author:Meg Rosoff
“In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.” YearsHumansTwoTodayHuman BeingsModernHundredYears AgoDeterminationAccountsSlaveNotesBritishWideShipsBordersFierceGlobesTraveledVividSessionCrossingsDealerServitudeModern DayHuman TraffickingBargainingTraffickingAbolitionistBrothelsSkinnerSlave Ships Author:Adam Hochschild
“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image” HumansMatterFormDiesIndividualProcessVoiceWealthHuman BeingsModernExerciseCapitalismOrganizationManagementDressesSlaveryPrivilegeExtremesContemporaryManagersEmployeeArbitraryPostmodernTerminology Author:Kenneth Cloke