The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the healthiest people in Western society are single women and married men - marriage, it seems, suits men more… — Emma Haughton Copy Share Image
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or… — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society.… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
