Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

You can't get along in society without an identity.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

We are what make up society.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.

We believe that a society in turmoil cannot be saved through mere legislation.