Western society Quote by René Girard

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

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only…

— Malcolm X

Institutions of higher education in the United Statesare products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are…

— Yolanda Moses

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