Potentialities Quotes

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, `It all depends on me.`

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life