In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
Marshall B. RosenbergWe're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.
Marshall B. RosenbergViolence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
Marshall B. RosenbergMiracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
Marshall B. RosenbergIf you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.
Marshall B. Rosenberg