Quotes About Society

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale

Men went about killing each other in the most ingenious ways they could imagine, and on a scale never before seen, but at the same time, they insisted on making up rules of engagement to preserve a facade of civilization and morality. They were like children playing a game, but one with horrendous consequences.

Evil is everywhere and nowhere at the same time these days. You only have to read the papers to know there's no escaping it.

Men went about killing each other in the most ingenious ways they could imagine, and on a scale never before seen, but at the same time, they insisted on making up rules of engagement to preserve a facade of civilization and morality.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

If a society does not wish to change, it cannot be reformed through the educational system.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

When a society cannot ridicule and criticize its institutions, it cannot laugh. The shortest book ever written would be the history of German humor, a culture that has suffered spells of paralyzing fear of authority. Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that aspect of society that heats his blood and goes on an assault.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought. Self-expression is never an issue, for, wittingly or unwittingly, all stories, honest and dishonest, wise and foolish, faithfully mirror their maker, exposing his humanity … or lack of it.

In 388 B.C. Plato urged the city fathers of Athens to exile all poets and storytellers. They are a threat to society

As we gather in all the scenes that satirize Hollywood aristocracy, we realize that commercial films that presume to instruct society on how to solve its shortcomings are certain to be false. For, with few exceptions, most filmmakers, like Sullivan, are not interested in the suffering poor as much as the picturesque poor.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. If not, as Yeats warned, "...the centre can not hold.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a cean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. If not, as Yeats warned, "...the centre can not hold.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

La historia prueba que las grandes civilizaciones se acaban cuando la distancia entre 'tener' y 'no tener' es demasiado grande.

America today is less a democracy and more an oligarchy.

If we don't do likewise, we'll soon have a sclerotic society that takes care of its elders at the expense of its youth.

Hace algún tiempo que el mundo gira en torno al dinero, ya no en torno a la historia.

Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it.