Social Limits Quotes

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

There’s a carrying capacity in any society for how much change it can incorporate at any one time.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.