Pagel Quotes

#1. Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Tony Iommi

#2. A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

Reggie Evans

#3. No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

Mark Pagel

#4. What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Mark Pagel

#5. You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Mark Pagel

#6. Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Mark Pagel

#7. I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

Miuccia Prada

#8. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.

R.D. Laing

#9. Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Mark Pagel

#10. Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Mark Pagel

#11. [Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Mark Pagel

#12. We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

Mark Pagel

#13. All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Morris West

#14. Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.

Maureen Johnson

#15. Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Mark Pagel

#16. Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

Mark Pagel

#17. It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

Mark Pagel

#18. It's easier to be careful in dresses. You have to be or you end up flashing your underclothes or destroying beautiful fabric. Dresses force you to be on guard.

Dia Reeves

#19. Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Stephen L. Carter

#20. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

#21. Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Luigi Pirandello

#22. My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked to do by the president and the first lady and the State Department. I believe that we accomplished that.

Desiree Rogers

#23. Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#24. could feel the thud of his heartbeat in my ear as it echoed through the bones of his chest. Its quick, steady pounding soothed

Celina Grace

#25. In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

Barton Gellman

#26. Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Mark Pagel