"Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.”

Source : Harry S. Dent (2000). “The Roaring 2000s Investor: Strategies for the Life You Want”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.243, Penguin
“He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.”
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
“I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.”
“We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.”
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