Socs Quotes

• That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mean, Thinking, People

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.

  S. E. Hinton

  Thinking, Lucky, Sometimes

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

  S. E. Hinton

  Hate, Don't Hate

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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• You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

  S. E. Hinton

  Brother, New York, Together

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin

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• Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

  S. E. Hinton

  Names, Race, Perfect

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• I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

  S. E. Hinton

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.104, Penguin

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• We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, War, Kids

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.37, Penguin

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• Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

  S. E. Hinton

  Gold, Outsiders

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  S. E. Hinton

  Movie, Home, Two

  The Outsiders ch. 1 (1967)

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• Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.

  Jared Bernstein

  Mean, Payroll Tax, Salary

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• Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class

  P. C. Cast

  Morning, Cereal, Class

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