Logo
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Society
category
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. – J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977

Category:
Society

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt

Category:
Society

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society. – Jose Mourinho

Category:
Society

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. – Stokely Carmichael

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Imagination

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas

Category:
History

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. – Thomas Kempis

Category:
Tolerance

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
Generations