Western Society

Famous quotes containing the words western society, western and/or society:

    “Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
    —Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)

    “O western orb sailing the heaven,
    Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
    As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)