50 quotes found
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
“You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
“There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves”
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are deligh...”
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to...”
“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.”
“Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ”
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
“There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.”
“A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and dont always state. You know my...”
“The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough tru...”
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”
“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.”
“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”
