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Society Quotes by Albert Camus
- The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
- As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
- 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 assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
- To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two…
- If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
- Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of…
- The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,…
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it…
- Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where…
- The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no…
- In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi