Modern Man Quotes - Page 7

• 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 Niebuhr

  Men, Social Values, Profound

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• There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Ugly, Beard

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• Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

  Stewart Udall

  Men, Needs, Modern

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• Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teacher, Men, Doe

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976). “On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975”

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• Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Way, Problem

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• I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

  Norbert Wiener

  Men, May, Littles

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.184, Da Capo Press

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• Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Real, Believe

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

  Earl Wilson

  Men, Car, Credit

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• Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

  Erich Fromm

  Time, Learning, Knowledge

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

  Milton S. Eisenhower

  Men, Political, Temples

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• Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

  Anne Fortier

  Men, Long, Events

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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