Group Psychology Quotes

#1. Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.

Ted Cruz

#2. She has told me that what she found most destructive about minority-group psychology "is that one comes to share the conviction of the majority: that one is less able, less intelligent, less educable, less worthy of responsibility." My sentiments, exactly.

Katharine Graham

#3. Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Steven Pinker

#4. [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

#6. Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

George Herbert Mead

#7. It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Do you remember the Lady of Shalott? The mirror crack'd from side to side: 'The doom has come upon me,' cried the Lady of Shalott. Well, that's what she looked like. People laugh at Tennyson nowadays, but the Lady of Shalott always thrilled me when I was young and it still does.

Agatha Christie

#9. When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

Mark Driscoll

#10. When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

Wil Wheaton

#11. The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

Frank Herbert

#12. A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

Joan D. Chittister

#13. The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Edward Bernays

#14. To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#15. Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives

Renae A. Sauter

#16. Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.

Tyler J. Hebert

#17. You and me, Tina. It's gonna happen." I gasp softly. He smiles and continues on a whisper, "Mark my words, baby.

Belle Aurora

#18. Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.

Shelley E. Taylor

#19. One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

Park Dietz

#20. I am great lover.

Lailah Gifty Akita