Famous Quotes About society

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

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.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

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