"History is written by the victors, but it's……" — Carol Tavris
"History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs."
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11 Quotes by Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris has 11 quotes on this site.
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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular…
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify…
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is…
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Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs…
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Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
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Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
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As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency…
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course…
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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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