#Society

"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."

"Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire."

"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."

"The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"

"The great hope of society is in individual character."

"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."

"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."

"The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society."

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man"

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."

"Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands."

"What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline."

"We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected."

"Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals."