Quotes About Social Realism

#1. When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

Kathryn Bigelow

#2. 'Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.

Gurinder Chadha

#3. 'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

Paddy Considine

#5. The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

James Joyce

#6. Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay

#7. Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#8. I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.
I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

Ade Santi

#9. A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.

Garry Kasparov

#10. What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

#11. You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

Jerry Rubin

#12. Success in your work will be greatly increased if the 3 R's (Requirements/ Return/Reward) are similar. In

John C. Maxwell

#13. God throws dice, what can I say?

Michio Kaku

#14. Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#15. My philosophy of life: Wake up. Be happy. Hurt no one. Go to bed. Wake up. Repeat.

Jodi Ambrose

#16. Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got

Saira Viola

#17. There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

#18. Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.

Grant Morrison

#19. What goes around, doesn't come around ... you make it come around.

Sabah Carrim

#20. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.

Dan Ariely

#21. I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.

Rick Bragg

#22. Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

Brent Spiner

#23. I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.

Michael Gold

#24. But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.

Karen Marie Moning

#25. Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why

Bob Marley

#27. The black went down like a felled tree, gushing blood,

Robert E. Howard