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“In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.”

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Book:Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography

Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography

“The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.”

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Book:Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Source: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.”

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Author:George McGovern

“The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.”

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Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.”

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Book:The Greene Murder Case

Source: The Greene Murder Case

“Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.”

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Author:Shirley Manson

“I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

“Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.”

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Author:William McDonough

“The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln