Joan Cusack Quotes

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as well - and obviously I'm interested in what's going on in the world - but my passion is more the psychology of people.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

Nothing is more fallacious than to expect to produce any valuable or permanent results in political projects by relying merely on the reason of men. Men are ... for the most part governed by the impulses of passion.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Politics is applied biology.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Human nature, in which the laws of politics have their roots, has not changed since the classical philosophies of China, India, and Greece endeavored to discover those laws.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled