Desire Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.”

— Csikszentmihaly

“...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find…

— Csikszentmihaly

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value…

— Erving Goffman

“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead…

— Fritjof Capra

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

— Warren Farrell

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on…

— A. J. Muste

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human…

— John Stuart Mill

Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination…

— William James

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to…

— Earl Nightingale