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Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

“Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.”

Men Long Evil Differences Views Practice Modern Point Of View Tolerance Doctrine Paralyzed Modern Man

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.”

Men Imagine Groups Modern Vices Tendencies Ethical Modern Man

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.”

Men Political Animal Existence Modern Capacity Modern Man

Author:Michel Foucault

“Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.”

Men Feet Modern Car Losing Fancy Lungs Modern Man Sacredness Fancy Cars

Author:Steve Ilg

“Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!”

People Men Firsts Ideas Use Force Goal Moral Modern Achieve Stupid Gun Method Clever Primitive Persuasion Immoral Brutes Stupid People Modern Man Brute Force Primitive Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.”

Knows Men Needs Looks Know How Modern Circumstances Leisure Looking Good Modern Man Leisure Time

Book:Meaning Success

Source: Meaning Success

“Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.”

Men Feels War Modern Glory Trade Expensive Ancestor Innate Avenues Modern Man Plunder Modern War

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.”

Men Language Modern Educated Foreigners Modern Man Foreign Language

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.”

Men Would Be Desire Wish Views Modern Security Leisure More Money Typical Conquest Modern Man Splendour Ostentation

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.”

Men World Humans Self Home Force Cities Existence Modern Human Nature Creating Gains And Love Structure Possession Deeper Missions Chiefs Visible Civics Resumes Modern Man Love And Nature

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.”

Men Lost Christianity Teach Modern Events Objects Historical Modern Man Historical Events

Author:R. C. Sproul

“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.”

Men Modern Becoming Workers Evening Forty Afternoon Best Work Becoming More Modern Man

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.”

Men Christianity Psychology Impossible Modern Originals Missions Significance Fulfilled Modern Man

Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

“I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?”

Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition

“If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?”

Ifs Men Doe Economic Modern Masters Higher Activity Standards Advantage Greed Pursue Standards Of Living Frenzy Modern Man Higher Standards Ruthlessness Small Is Beautiful

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.”

Men Language Grows Growth Modern Structure Architecture Meaningful Circles Traditional Related Consistent Customs Village Find Me Modern Man Implied

Book:Tradition and Revolution

Source: Tradition and Revolution

“Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.”

Men World Left Modern Mysterious Realms Boredom Modern Man Foreboding

Book:Fire from Within

Source: Fire from Within

“Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.”

Men Force Modern Fundamentals Modern Man Battered

Author:Carl Jung

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