"Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos."

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Source : Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books

Anne Campbell

#Selfishness Quotes #Slippery Slope Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
“You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.”
“I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.”

Source : Max Atkinson (2005). “Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations”, p.14, Oxford University Press
“If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”

Source : "The Coevolution quarterly". "The Coevolution quarterly", Nr. 8-12, p. 31, ed. Anne Waldman, 1975.
“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”
“To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.”

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