A Quote by Oliver Sacks

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Sacks
British - Scientist
July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015

The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.

Sheila Jeffreys

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Pope John Paul II

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Peter Drucker

Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

Robert M. Sapolsky

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

Christoph Waltz

bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

Shirley MacLaine

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

Alicia Keys

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Condoleezza Rice

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

Guillermo del Toro

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Mario Bunge

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

Canvass White

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

Kyp Malone

I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more.

Ryan Reynolds

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Albert J. Nock

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