“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.” — Bernard Bloch and George L Trager Copy Share Image
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Stereotyping is taking a universal human behavior and applying it to a specific social group. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with… — Natalia Dyer Copy Share Image
I thought online dating was good fun, but hobbies and social groups outside of work are also good ways of meeting like-minded… — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it… — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I believe the human self-model was successful because it installed your social group as an ideal observer in your mind, and to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness"… — Laura Hanna Copy Share Image
Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in -… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Islamic State does not want us to open our doors to their refugees. It wants them to be hopeless and desperate.… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was… — Conrad Rudolph Copy Share Image
“The old laissez faire failed because it was based on erroneous premises regarding human behavior. As a theory it failed because it… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“The individuals in a cooperative social group cannot afford to tolerate repeated defections by selfish “free riders,” such as those who hoard… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“Criminals, it turns out, are the one social group in America we have permission to hate. In 'colorblind' America, criminals are the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Theirs is the customary human reaction when confronted with innovation: to flounder about attempting to adapt old responses to new situations or… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“as many more people are now asserting—balance is bunk. It’s a misguided metaphor because it assumes we must always make trade-offs among… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“certain categories of us are more crucial to our identities than the kind of car we drive or the number of dots… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“ Humor Humor is a great social lubricator—it can make interacting go more smoothly. If you are good at telling jokes, try… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“The eugenics roots of minimum wage laws. Excerpt from *Principles of Economics*(1911) by Frank Taussig: "We have not reached the stage where… — Frank Taussig Copy Share Image
“ADDRESSING DIVERSITY The way to reach the sheer diversity of the city is through new churches. New churches are the single best… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“We need a laissez faire that will hold fast to the ends of autonomy and freedom of choice; one that will begin… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“It is the lessons that we disagree with that force and challenge us to grow and learn for ourselves, and though the… — Ivan D'Amico Copy Share Image
“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes… — Dennis Bray Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible for abstruse theoretical formulations to be concocted in near-total isolation from the broad movements in the social structure,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image