Secret Societies

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or societies:

    The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    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)