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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be
The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.