"No man in his senses will dance."

Sociology, Behavior, Observation, Humor, Social

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"She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men.And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Sociology, Gender, Language, Bias, Social

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Sociology, Survival, Observation, Life, Struggle

"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Sociology, Humanity, Diversity, Connection, Uniqueness

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Sociology, Insanity, Politics, History, Humanity

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Sociology, Ethics, Social, Behavior, Humanity

"People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility."

James Baldwin, American Novelist

Sociology, Responsibility, Society, Principles, Behavior

"We cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Sociology, Power, Control, Influence, Aggression

"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Sociology, Society, Wealth, Work, Function

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Sociology, Breeding

"She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Sociology, Curiosity, Interest, People, Knowledge

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

Friendship

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."

"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."

"People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility."

"We cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

"She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does."

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"A home without books is a body without soul."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Hatred is settled anger."

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."