Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”
—Anzia Yezierska (c. 18811970)
“It was mankind that hung on the cross for two thousand years: and a terrible god practiced his cruelty and called it love.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“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)
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