Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime—namely, repressive justice.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)