{"quotes":[{"text":"Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","delusions","education","knowledge","mystical","mysticism","rational-thinking","reasoning","social-psychology","society","wisdom","wise-sayings"],"id":2181,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","citizen-power","citizens","inspirational","inspiring","leadership","leadership-development","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politics","responsible-citizen","social-change","social-norms","social-psychology","social-reform","social-reformer","social-science","social-sciences","social-work","social-worker","social-workers","society","society-problem","society","society-thinking"],"id":16617,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","free-thinking","human-nature","humanity","ignorance","in-god-i-trust","in-god-we-trust","inspirational","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","philosophy","prejudice","prejudices","principia-humanitas","principles-of-humanism","rational-thinking","rationality","sage","sages","science","self-awareness","self-confidence","self-help","self-love","self-realization","social-norms","social-psychology","truth","truth","wise-sayings","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":19234,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want.","author":"Gary Heymann","tags":["politics","social-psychology"],"id":23076,"author_id":"Gary+Heymann"},{"text":"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.","author":"Philip G. Zimbardo","tags":["behavior","heroes","social-psychology"],"id":25645,"author_id":"Philip+G.+Zimbardo"},{"text":"Man is the master of Woman' - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["evolution","female","female-empowerment","female-liberation","feminism","inspirational","inspirational","misogyny","neuropsychology","social-psychology","thought-provoking","wise-words","woman","womanhood","women","women-and-men","women-empowerment","women","women-s-strength"],"id":34832,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","education","education-reform","education-system","educational-philosophy","educational","inspirational","knowledge","knowledge","knowledge-teaching","knowledge-wisdom","leadership","learning","parenting","parenting-children","philosophy","prejudice","prejudices","racism","social-psychology","superstition","teacher","wisdom","wise-sayings"],"id":38833,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also see people, architecture and events laid out chronologically in the columns. When I think of the year 1805, I see Trafalgar, women in the clothes of that era, famous people who lived then, the building, etc. The sixth to tenth centuries are very green, the Middle Ages are dark with vibrant splashes of red and blue and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are brown with rich, lush colours in the furniture and clothing.","author":"Claudia Hammond","tags":["psychology","social-psychology","synesthesia","time"],"id":41772,"author_id":"Claudia+Hammond"},{"text":"By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential factor is that they are taken for granted: a person's primitive beliefs represent the basic truths he holds about physical reality, social reality, and himself and his own nature. Like all beliefs, conscious or unconscious, they have a personal aspect: they are rooted in the individual's experience and in the evidence of his senses. Like all beliefs, they also have a social aspect: with regard to every belief a person forms, he also forms some notion of how many other people have the experience and the knowledge necessary to share it with him, and of how close the agreement is among this group. Unlike other beliefs, however, primitive beliefs are normally not open to discussion or controversy. Either they do not come up in conversation because everyone shares them and everyone takes them for granted, or, if they do come up, they are virtually unassailable by outside forces. The criterion of social support is totally rejected; it is as if the individual said: 'Nobody else could possibly know or have experienced what I have.' Or, to quote a popular refrain: 'Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.' A person's primitive beliefs thus lie at the very core of his total system of beliefs, and they represent the subsystem in which he has the heaviest emotional commitment.","author":"Milton Rokeach","tags":["belief","primitive","social-psychology","the-problem-of-identity"],"id":42513,"author_id":"Milton+Rokeach"},{"text":"Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["africa","african","african-american","ambitions","black-history","black-people","brainy","character","evolution","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanismo","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-crisis","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","humanitarians","humanity-and-society","inspirational","life","love-and-kindness","origin-of-human-rights","origin-of-life","origin-of-species","philosophy","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-issues","race-of-life","race-relations","races","racial-discrimination","racial-equality","racial-identity","racial-injustice","racial-prejudice","racial-profiling","racial-superiority","racism","sentiments","social-psychology","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":43166,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}