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Famous Quotes
"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."
More quotes about Society
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi on Society -
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein on Society -
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society -
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society -
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mahatma Gandhi on Society
More quotes by Ernst Fischer
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"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."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time."
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"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."
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"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."