Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Rollo May Quotes

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994

Topics

Freedom Dignity Human Human Dignity

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Smile Walk Dance People Song Loved

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Compassion Face Human Human Face

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Future Book Television Argument Know

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Religion Government Society Believe

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

Change Girl Heart Born Boy Way

You can't go east and west at the same time.

Time You Go Same West East

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

Science Men Progress Genius Rather

I'm a huge fantasy football fan.

Football Fantasy Fan Huge

I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

Good Baseball Thought Acting Living

I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Time Commitment Book Energy Story

Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.

Conservative Out Democrats Sort Any

I've been married for 22 years. That's the only person I want.

Person Want Years Only Been Married

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Rollo May