Behaviour Quote by Molly Haskell

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to…

— Frederick Lenz

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

“Patience is a virtue,” he said wickedly. “That’s a lie perpetrated by people who don’t want to tell you things,” Rachelle said.”

— Anastasia Wilde

“Every one of the “great” belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women’s inferiority as an article of…

— Rosalind Miles

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

— Ibn Warraq

An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has…

— Pope John Paul II

“Western society has in the past few decades taken a great step forward, which gives its members a perhaps unparalleled opportunity. This has been…

— Idries Shah

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to…

— Lewis Mumford

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

— Octavio Paz

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle