#soc

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #life #mr-darcy #people #society

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #society #freedom

The best thing about a busy social life? It helps you avoid reality. ↗

— Gemma Burgess A Girl Like You

#business

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fruition #motivational #society #success #wishing

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. ↗

— Anne Frank

#society #women #beauty

A wish changes nothing, a decision changes everything. ↗

— Patty Bailey

#change

If religion is a crutch, then society is the broken foot. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#society #religion

Solitude sometimes is best society. ↗

— John Milton

#privacy #solitude #society

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗