Quotes About Society

As we change our own dysfunctional habits, we are simultaneously changing society. Our own awakening is intertwined with the awakening of enlightened society. If we can lose our personal appetite for aggression and addiction, the whole planet will rejoice.

The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

War is the highest form of modern art.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.