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• Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we’re trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn’t.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art, Democracy, Society

• January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Government

• I’m not claiming that football is the nation’s salvation in this area, but it’s one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can’t be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

  Pete Rozelle

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Imagination

• Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Topics in Family, Society

• The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

  Boris Spassky

  Topics in Attitude, Society

• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Effect, Wrong

• As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

  Bobby Jindal

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Enjoy

• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Fear, Society

  Tags in Civilization

• I honestly don’t know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in America, Future, Society

• I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  Pauline Kael

  Topics in Art, Future, Society

  Tags in Culture

• A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

  Pauline Hanson

  Topics in Country, Society

  Tags in Problem

• Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

  Frederick Moore Vinson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Change, Institutions

• To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

  Dan O'Brien

  Topics in Society

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Boredom

• In Canada, women’s rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

  Paul Martin

  Topics in Opportunity, Society

  Tags in Opportunities

• We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Society

• Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

   

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Possibility

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Topics in Society, Work

  Tags in Humane

• I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it’s affected us and the world.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Live

• Music is always a commentary on society.

  Frank Zappa

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Music