Modern Humans

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or humans:

“Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)