Redeeming Social Importance

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

    The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.
    Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)

    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 (1899–1972)

    “I’m sure you’ve often wished there was an after-life.” Of course I had, I told him. Everybody has that wish at times. But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich, or to swim very fast, or to have a better-shaped mouth.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)