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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>