Quotes About Social dynamics

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

One of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isn't it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child.

And the real actors look down on those from the drama school and are sure to let them know. They also look down on each other, but that they don't show too much. In any case, there's a hell of a lot of looking down on each other, and everyone thinks they're the only one who's wonderful. And the janitors are the only ones who act like normal people and greet you when you say hello to them.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

Oooh! Look at the cute squirrel," all the girls yelled. "It's adorable!" "Kill it!" yelled all the boys.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

No one knows why we hate Hattie. Maybe it's her wool skirts and kneesocks. Maybe it's because she's the last to develop. Maybe it's because she makes A's. Maybe it's because if we hate her, no one will hate us.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

Frankly, people don't make sense to me.' I nod in agreement. 'Frankly, people don't make sense to me either,' I say.

Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids—they weren't her friends. Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust—at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.

How come when you're single, nobody wants you, but the minute you enter a relationship you're a hot item.

Twitter makes me want to have drinks with people I've never met, and Facebook makes me want to throw drinks at people I already know.

Some friends are just school friends and it would be weird to hang out with them anywhere else besides school.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

WHY is it when I'm in a good mood theres always somebody to piss me off with their attitude...

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.