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Quote by Randolph Bourne
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of st

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randolph Bourne

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We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. – Robert C. Pollock

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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like The Beggars Opera – the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters. – Peter Mullan

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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. – David Mamet

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In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx

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