Abraham Maslow: Quotes about people

Abraham Maslow was American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Abraham Maslow: 68 quotes 5 likes

“The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.”

Abraham Maslow

Summer notes on social psychology of industry and management at Non-Linear Systems, inc., Del Mar, California, ‎Non-Linear Systems, Inc, 1962, p. 81.
1940s-1960s

People

“Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature—she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children—I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”

Abraham Maslow

As quoted in Colin Wilson New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 155-56.
Quotes attributed to Abraham Maslow

Children , People , Literature

“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”

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 234.

People , Study , Universe , Science

“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.”

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 31.

People

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

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 103.

Love , People