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Today's Anniversary - 22nd May

Births

• 1974 - A. J. Langer
• 1943 - Betty Williams
• 1939 - Paul Winfield
• 1920 - Thomas Gold
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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.

  Ernst Fischer

  Topics in Art, Society

  Tags in Decaying, Truthful
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  In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.

  John C. Sawhill

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Destroy

• Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Responsibility

• The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Important

• Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

  David Petraeus

  Topics in Society

  Tags in President

• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Topics in Society

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  People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same

  Unknown

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Courage, Different

• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  Dean Kamen

  Topics in Society, Work

• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Death, Society

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  Gary Locke

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Richness

• The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Society

• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Philanthropy

• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Destruction

• Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

  David Obey

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Best

• The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

  Phil McGraw

  Topics in Society, Truth

  Tags in Think

• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  David Hume

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Good, Friend

• American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Meaning

• I’ve always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don’t know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I’m a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Good, Change

• If you’re writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you’re writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it’s towards another point. I won’t make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Think, Change

• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Law And Lawyers, Advantage