John Dewey Quotes

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

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

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

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

I love observing people.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

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

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

When two people are together, they are not two but six: what each one is, what each one thinks he or she is, and what each one thinks the other is. And what is true for people is also true for countries and organisations.

Society becomes how we behave.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

I prefer social dramas.

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.