Quotes About Social

The head of Goldwater's California operation "what was so uncomfortable around people that he worked up a routine to deal with employees with whom he was forced to share an elevator: "Taken your vacation yet?" he would ask when they entered; answer took just long enough to deliver him to his fourth-floor office.

It's not even the other kids, because fuck them. It's me. My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.

In Denmark, "social trust"—a general feeling that you trust your fellow citizens and the pillar institutions of government, law courts, police, hospitals, and so on—is generally found to be the highest in the world. A perfect example of Danish "social trust" is the image of babies sleeping in carriages outside a restaurant while the parents eat inside. You might say, "But no one is watching!" A Dane will say, "Everyone is watching.

Black collegians created BGFs in an effort to provide the interpersonal, social, educational, and professional support denied to them in many U.S. social and political structures, but they did not autonomously create the process of violent initiation.

Nature knows no Moral Order. Nature doesn't give a fig for social conventions or ethical questions. And God cannot respond to or repair evil, because He is not there to witness it.

We are fundamentally social creatures whose survival and well-being depend on our interactions with particular, embodied, others.

self and society are always interfused; there is no clear place where one ends and the other begins. Subjectivity is always caught up with intersubjectivity, personal experience awash with social and political meanings.

One of Aristotle's most interesting discoveries is that social conflicts arise from the inequality in Economic and Social conditions…

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.

From Fustel de Coulanges to his student, Durkheim, is but a short step. Durkheim's distinction between the sacred and the profane, and his linking of the sacred to the social are but a broadening and systematization of what Fustel had confined to the classical city-state.

It's the most depressing-looking plaything I ever saw.' 'I want to pretend I live in it,' I said, 'and give masked balls.' My social history was eager but indiscriminate.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Since 95 percent of the people are imitators and only 5 percent initiators, people are persuaded more by the actions of others than by any proof we can offer.

First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't.

In general, when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct.

good-looking people are aware that other people's positive evaluations of them are not based on their actual traits and abilities but are often caused by an attractiveness "halo

Without question, when people are uncertain, they are more likely to use others' actions to decide how they themselves should act.

audiences have been successfully manipulated by those who use social evidence, even when that evidence has been openly falsified.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves.

The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.