Western Society Quotes
39 Western Society quotes by 37 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
— Octavio Paz
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The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
— Camille Paglia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
— Jean Baudrillard
Who Wrote These Western Society Quotes
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