Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
~ Russell Smith
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.
~ Christina Grimmie
In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.
~ Kangana Ranaut
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
~ Ai Weiwei
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
~ James Russell Lowell
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
~ Michel Foucault
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
~ E. L. Doctorow
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
~ Yoshihiko Noda
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
~ Beck
I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
~ J. C. Watts
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.
~ Thomas Mallon
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
~ Charles W. Pickering
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
~ Dalai Lama
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
~ Ernst Mayr
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.
~ August Strindberg
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~ Robert Blair
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
~ Winona Ryder
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
~ Irvine Welsh
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
~ Zoe Saldana
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
~ Tina Yothers
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
~ Jose Padilha
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
~ John Naisbitt
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.
~ Neil Harbisson
Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.
~ Honor Harger
We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.
~ Alan Cooper
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
~ Anita Borg
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
~ Andrew Vachss
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~ Pope Paul Vi
Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.
~ Brad Katsuyama
I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.
~ Jeff Lemire
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
~ Joe Biden
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
~ Ban Ki-Moon
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
~ Cal Thomas
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
~ James Madison
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
~ Vint Cerf
