Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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