A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read
the papers.
-Albert Camus
All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature, but it shows
more on some people.
-Will Cuppy
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has
manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in
earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
-Lewis Mumford
Freedom, although it has brought (modern man) independence and
rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.
-Erich
Fromm
Modern man does not love, but takes refuge in love; does not hope, but
takes refuge in hope; does not believe, but takes refuge in a dogma.
-Nicolás
Gómez Dávila
Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and
more illusory.
-Robertson Davies
Modern man is a puppet, a jumping jack.
-Eugene Ionesco
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
-Loren
Eiseley
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest
social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is
a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
-Reinhold
Neibuhr
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a
six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by
characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the
social misery which surrounds him.
-Wilhelm Reich
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's
existence.
-Theodore Dalrymple
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