Quotes About Social

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.

You did not grow up in the gutter. Your mother housed you and fed and clothed you. But even if you had, your basic human dignity would not be the less. Why should a king be of more value as a human being than a vagabond?

I mean exactly that," Mr. Davison retorted. "You've hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position"—he turned to Kay—"have 'privilege.' That's what I read in the Nation and the New Republic." Mrs. Davison nodded. "Good," said Mr. Davison. "Now listen. The fellow who's got privilege gives up some rights or ought to.

As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described just as well as a mutual dependence. And harmless coexistence as parts of the same eco-sphere is also a very common relation. . . . Among social creatures, positive gregariousness, a liking for each other's company, is the steady, unnoticed background for the conflicts.

the supposedly Darwinian belief in natural selection as a pervasive, irresistible cosmic force. Neo-Darwinian theorists offer this force as the final explanation, not just of evolution, but of all sorts of deep social, physical and metaphysical mysteries as well.

Diana always came to work bright-eyed, well rested, and on time. She'd told me she shared her flat with three other girls. While she did not offer many details about her social life, she said enough to give me a picture of a happy, relaxed young woman talking, giggling, and having fun with her roommates and other friends. It was clear that late hours, drinking, and serious boyfriends had no part in her life. She was a very wholesome, innocent young lady.

Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful, brave

Amalrik had argued that Marxist ideology had never had a firm grip on the country, that the Russian Orthodox Church had lost its own hold, and that without a central unifying set of beliefs, the country, pulled in opposite directions by social groups with different desires, would eventually self-destruct.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.