John Dewey Quotes

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

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

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

The action is in the interaction.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

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

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

The few ... write their plans and scheems by asotiations, conventions and correspondence with each other .... Their professions are often called together and know each others mind ...

The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself.

A party is no place for a crank. If he cannot compromise and go forward, he should flock alone.

Society becomes how we behave.

People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.