#soc

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics. ↗

— Li Peng

#choose #conditions #countries #development #light

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#any #architect #bottom #certainly #child

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#basketball #big #football #football games #games

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ↗

— Rob Portman

#even #fix #good #point #security

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #social-transformation #change

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#life #materialism #society #truth #humor

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. ↗

— Sally Jo Martine

#contemporary-fairytale #fiber-art #grief #illustrated-fable #inspiration