Quotes About Social dynamics

Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.

I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.

I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

Human beings are gross.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

I'm in the gym every morning and have lockers by Democrats. You know, I don't ask person X or person Y to go out to dinner. Not because they're bad people - I just have very little in common with them.

If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of human interchanges, where awareness and communication, whether verbal or no, hold all together or sunder it.

All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.

Do you think a city can control the way the people live inside it? I mean, just the geography, the way the streets are laid out, the way the buildings are placed?

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

Ce voyage-là durait vingt-quatre jours. Les paquebots des lignes étaient déjà des villes avec des rues, des bars, des cafés, des bibliothèques, des salons, des rencontres, des amants, des mariages, des morts. Des sociétés de hasard se formaient, elles étaient obligées, on le savait, on ne l'oubliait pas, et de ce fait elles devenaient vivables, et même parfois inoubliables d'agrément.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.