Society Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Architecture reflects society, and this is not a great age.
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity, &c. 41
It's not about transcending my humanity it's about engulfing myself in it.
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.