Red Cross Societies

Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:

    “The sable presbyters approach
    The avenue of penitence;
    The young are red and pustular
    Clutching piaculative pence.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)