Quotes About Social

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.