#soc

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#because #big #bobby #body #clarinet

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#belief #enable #entirely #fact #harm

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#desirability #essential #free #free society #justification

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#course #facts #general #great #indeed

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#family #i #important #involved #life

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#improvement #mainly #progress #society #workingmen

Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#access #american #american citizen #average #average american

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#associated #i #joy #lift #moment

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition