The amount of eccentricity in a society

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”

— John Stuart Mill

Author: John Stuart Mill
Category: society
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately

“Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.”

— Michael Haneke

Author: Michael Haneke
Category: society
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All of us in society are supposed

“All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?”

— Ingrid Newkirk

Author: Ingrid Newkirk
Category: society
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