Viggo Mortensen Quotes

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.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

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

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

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.

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.

How we behave in our public lives inevitably reflects values, attitudes and experiences embedded in our private lives and vice versa.

For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

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.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

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

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

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