Quotes About Social dynamics

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

how much of the audience's fun was sacrificed in the effort to redefine the social parameters of the concert hall—it sounds almost masochistic of the upper crust, curtailing their own liveliness, but I guess they had their priorities. Although the quietest

though they are on the whole less violent, personal relations in modern urban communities also lack the intimacy and continuity of those in most traditional societies. Increasingly, they are casual, anonymous, and fleeting.

To survive and evolve, every society needs some individuals who are more aggressive, restless, stubborn, submissive, social, hyperactive, flexible, solitary, anxious, introspective, vigilant - and even more morose, irritable, or outright violent - than the norm.

On the contrary, the world of hunter-gatherers as it existed before the coming of agriculture was one of bold social experiments, resembling a carnival parade of political forms, far more than it does the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory.

Mark a hen's comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former flock mates will attack her mercilessly. Jane Goodall, who was the first scientist to observe chimpanzees up close and personal in the wild, noticed that crippled chimpanzees were rejected and attacked by apes that were previously on friendly terms with them.

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

Differences in desirability create havoc in at least two fundamental ways. The first centers around misperceptions. A man who is a 6 but thinks he's an 8 will be utterly irritated when the woman who's an 8 whom he's trying to chat up rejects his advances. Although women and men both can err in their self-perceived mate value, research shows that men are more likely than women to be overconfident in a variety of domains

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

You're going to find the good people and bad all around.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Prison is like high school with knives.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu