Quotes About Social dynamics

It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

To propel themselves forward, such figures latched onto the resentments of ordinary people who felt that their nation or religion or way of life was being disrespected. Megalothymia and isothymia thus joined hands.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)

Context, as we will explore it in this chapter, is comprised of the spaces we inhabit, the things in those spaces, and the positions we choose to take in that space. It is a mistake to think of context as "just in the background." The context of a conversation can affect the course of a conversation, the feel of it, the outcome; it can even determine what kind of conversations we have.

Oh, don't worry. If you didn't say some stupid things every once in a while, you certainly wouldn't fit in with this group.

What they do not realize—and what you must realize—is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return

It is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel.

Maybe the Negro will always be our friend, no matter what we do to him. I remember a conversation with a colored maid in the home of one of my friends. She said, "I do think we have more love for you than you have for us." "You don't hate us ever?" I asked. "Lord no!" she answered, "we just feel sorry for you. You has all the power and the wealth but you ain't happy.

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

I always think all the other comedians in New York hate me - I'm just convinced that they all dislike me - when, generally, I think I'm a pretty well-respected guy.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.