#soc

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#companion #good #mean #society #souls

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#big #bit #cooler #dorky #get

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#choice #expresses #fact #forces #homosexuality

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#follow #her #i #joan #life

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#any #conform #every #expect #group

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