#societies

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how

Primitive societies without religion have never been found. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#found #never #primitive #religion #societies

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#control #declining #develop #economic #economically

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#countries #globalized #internally #longer #muslim

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#die #dies #faith #human #human beings

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #challenge #communication #face #i

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#cinema #create #deals #egalitarian #equality