Quotes About Decaying Society

#1. 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

#2. So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

Anthony Michael Hall

#3. I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

Lee Harvey Oswald

#4. The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ...

Hugo Black

#5. Love, not for a purpose, love just for the sake of love.

Debasish Mridha

#6. If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

William Powell

#7. Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Irvine Welsh

#8. The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down ... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.

St. Jerome

#9. Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann