Famous quotes containing the words western society, western and/or society:
“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)