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“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.”

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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.”

Way Humans Causes Human Beings Modern Concepts Formulas Replaced Probability Modern Science Discarded

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

Trying Humans Long Human Beings Attention Half Modern Average Attention 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.”

“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”

“Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.”

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Author:DJ Spooky