Behavior Quote by Rutger Bregman

Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

— Kevin Rooney

“Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and announce that there would be no…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first,…

— Joyce Maynard

You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just…

— Stephen Colbert

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

— Nicholas Wade

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”

— Augustine of Hippo

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or…

— Jean Liedloff

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

— Paul Valery

Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis.…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social…

— Frances Moore Lappé

We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate…

— Jonathan Haidt