Famous quotes containing the words state and/or actors:
“The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“It has no share in the leadership of thought: it does not even reflect its current. It does not create beauty: it apes fashion. It does not produce personal skill: our actors and actresses, with the exception of a few persons with natural gifts and graces, mostly miscultivated or half-cultivated, are simply the middle-class section of the residuum.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)