Social Creatures Quotes

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and brought to a horrible concrete pen when they're supposed to be out in the sea.

Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect. I see us as well as social creatures, and when I began to look back and say, ‘what is the fundamental bottom line for us as social creatures?’I couldn’t believe it because it seemed so hippy dippy, but it was Love. Love is the force that makes us fully human.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon.

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.