Consciousness Quote by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

“He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This…

— Ron Suskind

The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be…

— John Dewey

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed…

— David O. McKay

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development…

— Selma Fraiberg

Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this…

— Paulo Freire

“The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and”

— Robert B. Parker

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

— Albert J. Nock

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more…

— Aristotle

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or…

— African Spir