Havelock Ellis Quotes

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

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

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

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

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

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

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Of course I have a personal life.

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.