Western Society Quotes

39 Western Society quotes by 37 unique authors

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster… — Lewis Mumford
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way… — Malcolm X
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and… — Rip Esselstyn
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. — Octavio Paz
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. — Camille Paglia
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to… — Molly Haskell
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political,… — Willis Harman
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no… — Tomson Highway
The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want… — Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on… — Walter Lippmann
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of… — Robert B. Laughlin
There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam.… — Josh McDowell
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these… — Alan Hirsch
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the… — Lesslie Newbigin
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought… — Tom Hanks
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in… — Henri Nouwen
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is… — J. Michael Straczynski
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. — Jean Baudrillard

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