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Society Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.
- No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart…
- If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
- For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may…
- Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes…
- There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and…
- In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power…
- No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
- I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the…
- Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful…
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,…
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it…
- Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
- To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts…
- The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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