Adele Parks Quotes

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

Adele Parks

• Society
• Eyes
• Judge
• Animals
• Morality
• Failing

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  • Eyes
  • Judge