#men

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#although #deeper #even #forty #full

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#appropriate #been #being #believe #children

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#afraid #ambivalent #america #children #frequently

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous? ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#dogma #humanism #liberal #lifetime #me

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. ↗

— Plato

#enchantment #magical #men #produce #seems

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#environment #taught-to-hate #life

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment. ↗

— Rob Portman

#environment #get #government #much #needed