Quotes of: Social-conditions Keyword

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.

Ernst Fischer

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Kathryn Bigelow

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

Marina Abramovic

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Salman Rushdie

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Thom Mayne

Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level,  friendship knows no age and gender,  friendship knows no distance. 

Aphorisms of a Restless Soul

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

The Idea Of Justice

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

Jude the Obscure

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

Killosophy

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The Square Book

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

Little Tea Book

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

During those hours, I had zero social awareness, as I was asleep. All the joggers who waved at me while I was walking can vouch for that.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism