Malleability Science Quotes & Sayings

There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink. — Alexandra Bracken

The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant. — Sarah Gavron

A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy. — Sun Tzu

THE NAME THOUGHT OUT TO BE SPOKEN — Myself

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity, the Ghost in the Machine. The declaration that we can change what we don't like about ourselves became a watchword of social science. But that only raises the question "Who or what is the 'we'?" If the "we" doing the remaking are just other hunks of matter in the biological world, then any malleability of behavior we discover would be cold comfort, because we, the molders, would be biologically constrained and therefore might not mold people, or allow ourselves to be molded, in the most socially salutary way. A ghost in the machine is the ultimate liberator of human will - including the will to change society - from mechanical causation. — Steven Pinker

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. — William Shakespeare