“Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.”
Society is the agreement we all live under without ever signing a contract. These quotes examine culture, community, inequality, progress, and the ongoing negotiation between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”
“Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.”
“Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.”
“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”
“We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.”
“A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.”
“Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.”
“I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.”
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
“My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”
“You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”