Quotes About Social dynamics

I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out.

I was not a queen bee, ever.

It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

I quite enjoy that, seeing people get tetchy.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.

Hay un texto sobre cómo el bosque de Chapultepec es invadido por miles de sirvientas todos los domingos; un recorrido por la avenida Insurgentes, la calle más larga del mundo; un homenaje al monumento que alberga la mano cortada de un ex-presidente; y el recuento de una noche pasada en un bar de mal muerte adonde los soldados llegan con su novia y se van con un novio.

Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them better, these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

It's revealing, then, to look at modern society through the prism of more than a million years of human cooperation and resource sharing. Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not." I

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.

He was not sprightly enough to have sprightly friends.