Solomon Asch famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
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The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function
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The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
-- Solomon Asch
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
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I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws
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More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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