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“Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.”

Social Understanding Theory Behavior Normal Perfectly Normal Social Behavior

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.”

Action Force Social Realizing Behavior Social Behavior

Book:The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments

Source: The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments

“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”

“Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.”

“Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.”

People Long Values Force Social Community Class Huge Behavior Capitalism Labor Fruit Strive Producers Organized Collectives Long Ago Privileged Oligarchy Subjugation Social Behavior

Author:Albert Einstein

“Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.”

Knows Mean Form Social Situation Behavior Empty Letters Debt Customers Friendly Reminders Really Mean Social Behavior

Author:Judith Martin

“Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.”

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.”

Social Process Steps Behavior Species Patterns Saving Range Diets Threatened Mating Social Behavior

Author:Dian Fossey

“It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.”

Social Dark Rich One Thing Behavior Unity Features Display Outrage One Thing At A Time Social Behavior

Author:George C. Homans

“It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior”

Self Speak Social Term Behavior Efficacy Self Efficacy Informative Social Behavior

Author:Albert Bandura

“We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.”

Needs Social Behavior Intervention Dilemma Anti Social Social Behavior

Author:Terence McKenna

“It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.”

Children Mother Social Expression Behavior Roots Primates Mother And Child Social Behavior

Author:Jane Goodall

“Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.”

Reason Character Social Poverty Struggle Behavior Illness Mental Illness Limitation Social Behavior

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.”

Thinking May Littles Self Helping Social Knowing Morality Behavior Bases Discussion Arrogance Righteousness Self Righteousness Social Behavior

Author:Patricia Churchland

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

Ideas Moments Success Social Magic Behavior Crosses Spread Trends Threshold Tipping Wildfires Tipping Point Social Behavior Magic Moments

Author:Malcolm Gladwell