Social Behaviour Quotes

#1. The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

Colin Ward

#2. Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Anonymous

#3. I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

Bill Bryson

#4. As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Kamal Ahmed

#5. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

Molly Haskell

#6. The Millennials, a generation born digital, will have a much stronger impact on social behaviour than we currently assume. Global climate change and resource security will influence our lives in substantial ways.

Klaus Schwab

#7. There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

Theresa May

#8. Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism

Tony Blair

#9. The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

Theresa May

#11. The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security, is rarely cajoled, least of all questioned. Much of the magic of of life space contrast has passed out of North American life.

Geoff Mains

#12. Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#13. Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Keith Henson

#14. Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Oskar Morgenstern

#15. Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.

Charlie Caruso

#16. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed, but human behaviour remains consistent.

Alfred Hermida

#17. Social media had the unique ability to turn adults into immature slaves to drama.

Santino Hassell

#18. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#19. The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields ... : The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

Rupert Sheldrake

#20. 92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,
family member, or someone they trust is the biggest influence on whether they buy a product or service.

Paul M. Rand

#21. Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

#22. And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

Aysha Taryam

#23. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to live up to other people's status updates

LaToya Hankins

#24. When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.

James Corden

#25. What we create online becomes part of our digital DNA, this in turns becomes part of our human DNA.

Tiffany Sunday

#26. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

Derek Thompson

#27. Into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.

Elizabeth Bowen

#28. Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Yann Martel

#29. Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

Louise Burfitt-Dons

#30. Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

George Orwell

#31. The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

David Amerland

#32. But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thom Mayne

#33. Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Andrew Lansley

#34. suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind.

Yuval Noah Harari

#35. If you don't like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that its happening, not that you saw it.

Marie Sarantakis

#36. All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Iain Duncan Smith

#37. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Alfred Adler

#38. The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

Hugh Mackay

#39. I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

Ryan Lilly

#40. Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

Max Kozloff