The Undertaker Quotes

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.

I love observing people.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

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.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a cliché. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young people in the townships on issues principally around HIV/AIDS, is that people are usually neither entirely good or bad. They are usually variations of both. Just because someone is a carjacker doesn't mean they are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer.

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?