#social

Social Security is a tax. ↗

— Todd Akin

#social #social security #tax

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. ↗

— Steve Allen

#get #helps #humor #over #social

I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies… ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#social-constraints #nature

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#criticism #grammar #meanings #social

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#aesthetic #also #chosen #i #i think

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#discontent #enough #importance #justice #necessity

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#constitution #denies #different #embodied #equality

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#courageous #defies #government #man #more

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#actual #completely #conceive #doing #facebook

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#beyond #core #group #having #how