Reptilian Complex Quotes

#1. The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

Dave Brat

#2. Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

Carl Sagan

#3. Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

Caprice Bourret

#4. MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality, ritual and the establishment of social hierarchies. Despite occasional welcome exceptions, this seems to me to characterize a great deal of modern human bureaucratic and political behavior.

Carl Sagan

#5. There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Chekhov

#6. Even as he wanted to master her, he hated the idea of her as acquiescent. He needed her to struggle against him, to give as good as she got. He craved power plays between them, mental games. But ultimately he did want to dominate her.

Kresley Cole

#7. Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Theodore Roethke

#8. Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein