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“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”

Men Humans Wells Beautiful Given Social Process Results Beauty Human Nature Ugly Fixed Inclination

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”

Social Results Responsibility Known Beauty Modern Duty Conscience Craving Civics Civic Responsibility

Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“Beauty is a social necessity.”

Author:James Goldsmith

“In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.”

States Social United Beauty United States Members Army Priorities More Money Brazil Social Service Avon

Book:Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

Source: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

“But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.”

People Ifs Mind Body Values Social Beauty Revolution Honour Norm Social Revolution

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.”

Ifs Men Reality Light Lying Social Beauty Ugly Modernism Truth And Beauty

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.”

Problem Social Beauty Nudity

Author:Eric Fischl

“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”

Art Stills Social Beauty Position Victim Chess Aesthetic

Author:Marcel Duchamp