“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”– George Santayana Related Quotes “No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.”– Daisaku Ikeda “The whole truth?” Miss Bart laughed. “What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it’s the story that’s easiest to believe. In this case it’s a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset’s story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it’s convenient to be on good terms with her”— Edith Wharton “I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what’s happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.”– Henning Mankell