Social Function Quotes

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

Change, Faith, Art

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold

Social, Dying, Party

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound

Social, Ability, Literature

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
Angela Davis

Social, Function, Prisons

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.
Rocco Buttiglione

Family, Social, Function

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
Isabelle Huppert

Yourself, Living, Matter

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