Redeeming Social Importance

Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:

    “Now you rise,
    a city from the sea,
    born long before Alexandria was,
    straightway from God you have come
    into your redeeming skin.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)