Victoria Legrand Quotes

I like people.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Whereas the Bedouin who survey 100 miles of empty sand and crave company and can psychologically afford to offer each stranger a warm welcome, his urban contemporaries, at heart no less well-meaning or generous, must in order to preserve a modicum of balance, live without any acknowledgement of the millions of human beings sleeping arguing. Copulating, and dying only inches away. Modern society does not help us to put forward our more dignified side.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

We need other human beings in order to be human.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.