Social Grouping Quotes

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

People, like water, seek their own level.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Every bird dwells with its own kind.

An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.