Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

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

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

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

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

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

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

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

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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

Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations.

Our species likes being social.

'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.