Quotes About Social

I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

all groups are not evil. In fact, the good part of being involved with a healthy group—be it a religious, social or political—is that you can exercise control over your participation. You do not have to stay one minute longer than you want. Nor do you have to sit silently and blame yourself, if you don't understand what is being said or done. You can question, and you can question some more. Not only is this all right, it is your Constitutional right.

On matters of transgression in the social sphere, Zen's deficiencies cannot be blamed on an indifferent or unresponsive attitude, for in some cases it has been actively pursuing a reprehensible agenda. Perhaps part of the problem is Zen's apparent lack of a sense of good versus evil on a metaphysical level in stressing that all phenomena are interconnected and interpenetrating.

Culture is the multigenerational hard-drive of memory, change, and innovation. Culture transforms a record of the past into a prediction of the future; it transforms memory into tradition — into rules of how to proceed. And culture is profoundly social. It exists not just in one mind, but binds together mobs of minds in a common enterprise.

Women everywhere had higher scores in two of these categories—social responsibility and empathy—while men universally scored higher on stress tolerance.

subtle way of helping to identify a user's interests without the user conspicuously sharing them with facebook. (regarding the like button)

The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals.

I really do believe that our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground. We are not great reasoners. Most people don't like to think at all, or like to think as little as possible. And by most, I mean roughly 70 percent of the population. Even the rest seem to devote a lot of their resources to justifying beliefs that they want to hold, as opposed to forming credible beliefs based only on fact.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one's environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one's environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one's in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017).

Put simply, pandemics of infectious disease are not just events in which some infectious "bug" spreads throughout the world. Pandemics are events in which the population's psychological reactions to infection play an essential role in both the spreading and containment of the disease, and influence the extent to which widespread emotional distress and social disorder occur.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

His honest feeling was that he wanted to lean against Varian's legs, like a dog needing the comfort of its master's hand. Rather than perform a series of social manoeuvers, he simply obeyed the instinct and sat down. The fact that he felt relaxed doing this surprised him greatly.

Abroad little towns seemed to possess a bustling other-life, like insects below the grass. There were often mysteries to uncover, mysteries that could be cherished like gems unexpectedly discovered in a rock that had seemed uniformly grey. Here, the social structure demanded a different kind of behaviour-upright, polite, mannered-but that usually meant mysteries, when they were coaxed from hiding, were all the more delightful and perverse.

I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised

When we love our partner well, we offer a blueprint for a loving relationship to our children and their partners. Better relationships between love partners are not just a personal preference, they are a social good. Better love relationships mean better families. And better, more loving families mean better, more responsive communities.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Sir Bumbuggerer

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Drinking, as Eric Burns writes, was our first national pastime—long before baseball was invented.