Quotes on Modern

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.