Group Living Quotes

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

I lived with a bunch of guys for about a year in L.A. when I was younger. But I never had a weird roommate situation.

Man is a social animal.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

I like to be around people, so I ended up being roommates, right? I had a house. I lived with four guys.

If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?

In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.