Social Dynamics Quotes

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for which it is sufficient have been developed, and new superior relations of production never replace older ones before the material conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

History is the record of human society or world civilization, of the changes that take place in the nature of that society … of all the transformations that society undergoes by its very nature.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.