#society

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#authentic #creation #culture #even #freedom

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#deal #great #great deal #handle #loads

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cinema #important #important role #play #role

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#becomes #been #before #fit #ghastly

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#feel #hollywood #like #little #neat

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#before #blow #come #date #derived

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#eloquence #greatest #secrets #society

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#because #iraqi #iraqi people #legacy #living

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#call #case #cast #civilization #could

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary