Adaptation Quote by Timothy Leary

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity…

— Anonymous

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably…

— Margaret Mead

“Movements don’t emerge because everyone suddenly decides to face the same direction at once. They rely on social patterns that begin as the habits…

— Charles Duhigg

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced…

— George Will

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing,…

— John Dewey

We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding…

— James O'Dea

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

— Jacqueline Carey

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Society becomes how we behave.

— Gavin Newsom

Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination…

— William James

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi