Social Behavior Quotes

"Our social and emotional circuitries influence our aspirations and help shape our destinies." "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal" "When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door." "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us." "To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment" "The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others" "I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you." "The larger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes." "Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes" "More people need to tell their faces that they’re having fun" "The civility which money will purchase, is rar" "He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking"