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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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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 it to…
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and…
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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 if they…
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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 to notice…
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action…
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels…
— Karl Marx
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and…
— Carol Tavris
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Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you…
— Frans de Waal
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We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
— Frederick Lenz
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Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and…
— Anne Roiphe
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Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in…
— Luigi Pirandello
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I know social rules in Iran are very conservative and I am very respectful for that, and every type of culture.
— Sarah Shahi
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