#soc

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. ↗

— Sean Parker

#end #end of the day #just #makes #media

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#poverty #rises #society #standard

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material. ↗

— Trey Parker

#connections #issues #looking #luckily #make

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#chicago #conscious #express #fashion #i

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#differentiated #directly #family #functions #highly

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#free man #give #man #reforming #responsibility

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#awareness #breast cancer #cancer #diabetes #fact