Essential Quote by Bret Stephens Download Open image “There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.” — Bret Stephens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essential Every Health Healthy society Necessary Society
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness… — Victoria Ocampo Copy Share Image
A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
What is absolutely clear is that if Trump is the nominee, Republicans cannot win. Maybe they can't win with Rubio or Cruz or Kasich.… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world -… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
