Society Quotes - Page 18

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.

War has no winners and peace, no losers

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

It’s not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you’re going to be safe from them, then you’re going to find yourselves in the middle of a war whether you want one or not.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It is to isolate yourself for a particular period of time from the society!

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'-affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

Language is a social art.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.