I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.' — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society. — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Informed choice is the mantra of western society and is seen as a right, but few parents are fully informed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A breast is the best comforter, yet in western society it has been viewed merely as a conveyor of ‘feeds’.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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
“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 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that… — Deborah Root Copy Share Image
“Also, the Christian worldview has made foundational contributions to our own culture that may not be readily apparent. The deep background for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Western society has in the past few decades taken a great step forward, which gives its members a perhaps unparalleled opportunity. This… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that… — Lafcadio Hearn 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
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
To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance,… — Tomson Highway Copy Share Image
