Famous quotes containing the words social behavior, human, social and/or behavior:
“It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“That only needs a finger touch from God
To spring it like a deadfall and the fault
In nature would wipe out all human fault.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol—cross or crescent or whatever—that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)