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“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.”

Social Process Steps Behavior Species Patterns Saving Range Diets Threatened Mating Social Behavior

Author:Dian Fossey

“When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven't moved one step forward since.”

Trying Kind Steps Havens Behavior Jokes Moved Bars Ran Touching Grandparent Liquor Steps Forward Infantile Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Seth Rogen

“Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing... rewarding immoral and illegal behavior...For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.”

Giving Seems America Steps Example Behavior Illegal Trends Immoral Disturbing Needles Junkie Condom

Author:Bill Maher

“I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.”

Trying Believe I Believe Steps Support Behavior Terrorism Aggression Reign Iranian Bad Behavior

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.”

Form Steps Behavior Careful Taoism

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.”

Ifs Memories Steps Ready Behavior Judgment Prison Response

Author:Deepak Chopra

“There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.”

“There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.”

People Matter Realizing Powerful Steps Cases Behavior Compelling Happiness And Success

Author:Michelle Gielan

“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.”

Persons Self Humanity Levels Steps Awareness Perspective Behavior Self Awareness Connecting

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.”

Ifs Firsts Different Hands Lines Compassion Steps Fire Arms Behavior Gun Complicated Betrayal Drawing Biology First Steps Pulling Suicidal Triggers Of Context Different Meanings

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?”

People Ifs Kind Reason Powerful Steps Roles Land Trump Behavior Highest Election Threat Seeking Worried Reason Why Most Powerful Bully Narcissistic Step Up Lawsuit Very True Vengeful Reprisal

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.”

Way Humanity Accepting Steps Crazy Behavior Faults Who We Are Contradiction Meant To Be Primitive Steps Forward

Author:Colin Quinn

“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”

Steps Behavior Ambition Humble My Time Officers Revenue Step Up My Ambition Cockroaches Good Behavior

Book:The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel