"Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art."

-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Art Quotes #Thrive Quotes

“I am kind of a sucker for democracy, so I do think that what kinds of citizens we have in our societies are more foundational than what kinds of governments we have, and that the responsibility for self-government is ultimately with us. But we also have learned through a couple thousand years of democracy that democracies are only as good as people's capacity to reflect on those questions.”
“If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.”
“All great art is a form of complaint”
“The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.”
“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”
“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.”
“God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.”

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