Society Quotes - page 7
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.
Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.
To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.
It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.
We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.
Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry.
If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity.
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
High society is a poor play, a bad, boring opera, made slightly better by its staging, costumes and scenery.
The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.