Antisocial Quotes - Page 2

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

  Alfred Adler

  Behaviour, Sides, Failing

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

  Leland Yee

  Children, School, Player

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• People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Empathy, Personality

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Technology, People

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 05, 2012

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• The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Energy, Morality, Duty

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

  Murray Rothbard

  Race, Enemy, Progress

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• It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on him, it's hard to keep him that stripped down.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Character, Difficult

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Philosopher

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• I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.

  Ben Daniels

  Reading, Book, College

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Sports, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ku Klux Klan, Doors, Psychology

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• In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.

  Don Henley

  Responsibility, Self, Dysfunction

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• All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Communication, Writing, Cutting

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Brother, Children, Teaching

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• Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.

  Susan Cain

  Party, Believe, Wine

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• I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

  Adam Rapp

  Party, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Problem, Cigarette

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

  Cliff Martinez

  Band, Behind The Scenes, Kind

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Lying, Writing, Important

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer 2008.

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• Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.

  Matt Fraction

  Artist, Vocabulary, Hands

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• Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

  Julia Kristeva

  Fashion, War, Cities

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Community, Moxie, May

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