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The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.