Social Psychology Quotes
Social Psychology Quote of the day
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.
All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.
I’d rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.
You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through your eyes.
It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.
Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.
The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.
Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance.
Get rid of your useless ceremonials and be educated like your ancient ancestors – Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Susruta and others. Make education your purpose of life and spread it among the masses.
With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want
Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.
Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.
Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.
The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.
Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.
Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.
The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.
As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title “Martin Luther King Jr. of India.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.
The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.
The only good thing about people not taking me seriously is that I'm not serious myself!
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.
If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.
Every single creature on earth manages to survive one way or another, but not every creature truly lives.
The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.
All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.
Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.