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Quotes from Motivation and Personality — Abraham Maslow

1908–1970 United States

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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

Emergency conditions are, almost by definition, rare in the normally functioning peaceful society.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

The concept of the well-adjusted personality or of good adjustment sets a low ceiling upon the possibility for advancement and for growth. The cow, the slave, the robot may all be well adjusted.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology

Motivation and Personality (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Maslow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.