Arise Quote by Rollo May

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the…

— Laura Schlessinger

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

— Chip Espinoza

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all…

— Philip Zimbardo

“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own…

— Aldous Huxley

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads…

— Richard Hofstadter

What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case…

— Symeon the New Theologian

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Impulsive, sensation-seeking, and incapable of experiencing empathy or guilt, a narcissistic psychopath treats other people as objects of need fulfillment and wish fulfillment. This…

— Bandy X Lee

“Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated,…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human…

— Gene Kim