#soc

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#apt #associations #believe #i #know

We cannot rest until each of us would be satisfied with randomly assigning our own children to any public school in the nation. ↗

— Jason Kamras

#education #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #motivational #politics

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#became #children #finished #once #show

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#flash #into #musical #people #period

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#food #hardship #invasion #lack #life

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#conformists #dead #honors #living #troublemakers

[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path will reliably find itself failing to attract members, while a mass movement that reshapes its message to attract a large audience will inevitably turn into a mechanism for replicating the existing order of things. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#change

I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#home #i #socks #those #wait

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. ↗

— Michael Moore

#fewer #free #free society #good #limit

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate! ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#edge #either #experienced #generous #great