"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." ― Charles Horton Cooley Topic(s): Society More From Charles Horton Cooley "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." "Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom." "If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted." More In Society "Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity."― Maria Sharapova "Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."― John Naisbitt "It’s a repressive society where you can’t be horrible, I’m not horrible, they made me horrible, I’m just honest."― Johnny Rotten