Slade Gorton Quotes

Once you create a commission, it’s like watching a hog learning to ice-skate. That hog is going to go wherever it wants to go.

Far from being an empty gesture, appointing a commission is full of risks. Presidents may appoint such bodies but they cannot control them.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Our species likes being social.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

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.

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

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

I'm a person who floats in many different groups.

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

I love observing people.

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.