Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or societies:
“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent celibacy, by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity backward.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)