
“Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.”
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (Crosset & Dunlap, 1957)
“Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.”
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“I wouldn't enter an airplane flown by a quota pilot or accept to be operated by a quota doctor.”
Referring to the recent adoption of racial and socioeconomic affirmative action in universities. Interview to the program CQC on Band. Bolsonaro diz na TV que seus filhos não 'correm risco' de namorar negras ou virar gays porque foram 'muito bem educados' https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/bolsonaro-diz-na-tv-que-seus-filhos-nao-correm-risco-de-namorar-negras-ou-virar-gays-porque-foram-muito-bem-educados-2804755; O Globo (29 March 2011).
Source: The systems view of the world (1996), p. 139 as cited in: Sherryl Stalinski (2005, p. 17).
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
1961, Inaugural Address
Context: Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
Source: Men, Women and STEM: Why the Differences and What Should be Done? (with Lewis G. Halsey; 2021), p. 22