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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of… — Abraham Maslow
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral… — Robert M. Hutchins
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,… — Max Horkheimer
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which… — Hannah Arendt
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is… — Jimmy Carter
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who… — Mark Rothko
We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will… — George H. W. Bush
Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This… — Vannevar Bush
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Lester Horton
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. — Wassily Kandinsky
The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force,… — Sol LeWitt
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic… — Poul Anderson
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and… — Robert A. Heinlein
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so… — Taslima Nasrin
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet… — George Foreman
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty — Stephen Breyer
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept — Robert Bork
My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have… — Ingmar Bergman

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