Social Relationships Quotes

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

  Carroll Quigley

  Social, Reciprocity, Bases

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Media, Psychology

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• When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

  Tim Burton

  People, Kind, Like You

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

  Erich Fromm

  Husband, People, Wife

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Kingdoms, Principles

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• Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Life, Moving, Journey

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Gossip, Solitude

  "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.

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• We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'

  Peter Corning

  Party, Issues, Humanity

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• The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

  Gustav Landauer

  Creating, People, Way

  Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.214, PM Press

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• We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

  Margaret Visser

  Mean, Creating, Community

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

  Francis Fukuyama

  People, Vision, Working Together

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Moon, Perfect

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Smart, Vision, Hearing

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

  D. A. Carson

  Issues, Sin, Individual

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Disappointment, School

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• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Together, Social

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• For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Art, Men, Years

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• To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

  African Spir

  Social, States, Form

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

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• Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

  Juliet B. Schor

  People, Community, Together

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• Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

  Thomas Sowell

  Freedom, People, Decision

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