Famous quotes containing the words feared and/or social:
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish—about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)