Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Man is a child of his environment.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

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

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

You are bound to pick up influences.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

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

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

The spirit of the age, as it is revealed to each of us, is too often only the spirit of the group in which the accidents of birth or education or occupation or fellowship have given us a place.

We cannot isolate a human being from the circumstances of his condition

Society becomes how we behave.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.