Cases Quote by Nicholas A. Christakis

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous,…

— Andy Warhol

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

— Frances Moore Lappé

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have…

— Stephen Marche

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong?…

— Rabih Alameddine

“...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find…

— Csikszentmihaly

If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal…

— Frans de Waal

Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated.…

— Noam Chomsky

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no…

— Anonymous

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics...…

— Emile Durkheim