It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don’t come home at night.

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until...

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in...

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women’s lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis...

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the...

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind...

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist — this is essential to the life...

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap...

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible

Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

The suffering of either sex — of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him,...

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

The suffering of either sex / of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him,...

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily,...

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over...

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials — to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman’s hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas...

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

“WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.”

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift...

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen...

Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or...

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of...

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown… The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough...

We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.