Abraham Maslow

How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?

Abraham Maslow

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It’s us!

Abraham Maslow

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Abraham Maslow

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Abraham Maslow

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Abraham Maslow

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

Abraham Maslow

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Abraham Maslow

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Abraham Maslow

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

The chicken came first – God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Abraham Maslow