Famous quotes containing the words rational, dress and/or society:
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“I know you not, this room never,
the swollen dress I wear,
nor the anonymous spoons that free me,
nor this calendar nor the pulse we pare and cover.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“I dont see much future for the Americans.... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that its half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?”
—Adolf Hitler (18891945)