Antisocial Sayings and Quotes – 150 Antisocial Quotes & Sayings
Antisocial Quotes
“While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, its total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.” —Robert Genn
“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.” —Wilhelm Reich
“I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.” —Maya Lin
“In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.” —Don Henley
“It’s so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It’s much easier if he’s already a blank page, but once you’ve written on him, it’s hard to keep him that stripped down.” —Donald E. Westlake
“I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.” —Philip Zimbardo
“Any analysis of ‘sin’ or ‘evil’ or ‘demonic influence’ or ‘negative thinking’ or ‘systemic evil’ or ‘antisocial behavior’ that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.” —Robert H. Schuller
“The great thing about writing is that…you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they’re all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure’s off because you’d have already written them down. It’s therapy.” —Stephen King
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.” —Albert Camus
Antisocial Quotes That Will Inspire You
“Anti-social behavior still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.” —Theresa May
“To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.” —Gore Vidal
“Being anti-social can also mean that you’re aware of how annoying it is to be social.” —Dov Davidoff
“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.” —Criss Jami
“Sometimes those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually anti-social, they just have no tolerance for drama and fake people.” —Anonymous
“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.” —Michael Bassey Johnson
“The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you’re anti-social when you’re only anti-networking.” —Robert Breault
“Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.” —Alfred Adler
“Apparently when it’s two people, it’s quirky and funny, but when it’s a person doing the same stuff on her own, it’s rebellious and antisocial.” —Katie Alender
“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.” —Christian Lous Lange
“And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
“People with antisocial personality disorders aren’t automatically bad, they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people’s weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren’t a different species. They’re a part of our spectrum.” —Eden Robinson
Short Antisocial Quotes
“Writing is an antisocial act.” —Martha Grimes
“Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.” —Edward Bellamy
“Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.” —Pablo Picasso
“I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.” —Sylvia Plath
“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.” —Nikola Tesla
“I was a nerd growing up, and I’m a little antisocial and awkward.” —Louis C. K.
“Self-abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.” —Richey Edwards
“Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.” —Kirk D. Sinclair
“If you think about computer programming, it’s as antisocial as it gets.” —Shawn Fanning
Antisocial Sayings and Quotes
“For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.” —Jonathan Rauch
“’Grand Theft Auto’, in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.” —Nolan Bushnell
“I’ve invented two facebook, the antisocial network. You start being friend’s w/entire world & defriend people one by one.” —Andy Borowitz
“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.” —Mindy Kaling
“I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.” —Mike Ness
“I’m a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I’m introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.” —Emily Saliers
“I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of them around.” —J.R. Ward
“You could call me antisocial, I’ve called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that’s nothing against you.” —Dawud Wharnsby Ali
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely ‘well adjusted,’ he cannot go along with currents and trends.” —Marshall McLuhan
“I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.” —Katee Sackhoff
“After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge … This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression.” —Jonathan Rauch
“I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.” —Adam Rapp
“Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There’s just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.” —Phillip E. Johnson
“I’m kind of an antisocial person. I realized when I was playing in bands that I wasn’t that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.” —Cliff Martinez
“Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.” —Madison Smartt Bell
“Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don’t proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.” —William S. Burroughs
“These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.” —Leland Yee
“When you can’t smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you’re an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you’re a philosopher.” —Rory Sutherland
“I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.” —Anthony Hopkins
“Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.” —Jeffrey Kluger
“More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of ‘family values’ makes ‘family values’ look more and more like common bigotry.” —Jonathan Rauch
“Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.” —Laurie Helgoe
“I don’t want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.” —Sandra Cisneros
“All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.” —Kenneth Tynan
“Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.” —Murray Rothbard
“Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that’s really a misperception. Because actually it’s just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.” —Susan Cain
“What is to be done with people who can’t read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?… Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.” —Robert Benchley
“I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hyper sexuality – all of these sort of non-truths that I don’t exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world’s imagination.” —Kehinde Wiley
“Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.” —Ludwig von Mises
“Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.” —Matt Fraction
“I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there’s just too much commotion there.” —Jane Wiedlin
“It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.” —Louis Menand
“When I’m getting ready for a movie, let’s just say my diet is “The Antisocial Diet.” I don’t go to restaurants. I don’t eat what I really want to eat. I don’t eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don’t eat with people, because there’s a tendency to get social and then to overeat.” —Jason Statham
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.” —Antonin Artaud
“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people’s crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.” —Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.” —Hunter S. Thompson
“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter – aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take ‘no’ with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules – are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.” —Linda Ellerbee
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.” —Joan Didion
“I wouldn’t want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned – we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don’t have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn’t want to – I wouldn’t want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that’s a separate question. But – and I don’t think there’s any company that I have seen that’s 100 percent pure.” —Warren Buffett
“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one’s information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.” —Fernando J. Corbato
“I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I’d still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while – almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.” —Ben Daniels
“The period of Prohibition – called the noble experiment – brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.” —Gore Vidal
“Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I’m okay, you’re okay-in small doses.” —Jonathan Rauch
“Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation.” —Julia Kristeva
“…why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He’s not that way because he wants to be; he can’t be any other way…. and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat – worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.” —Pablo Picasso
“Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, “Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear.” Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.” —Albert Ellis