Modern Trivial

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or trivial:

“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)

“Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)