Riane Eisler Quotes About Caring

Quotes about: Caring

• Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

  Riane Eisler

  Communication, Teaching, Caring

• Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

  Riane Eisler

  Powerful, Communication, Teaching

• People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.

  Riane Eisler

  War, Caring, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Political, Foundation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

  Riane Eisler

  Mother, Caring, Whales

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Connections, Attention

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, People, Challenges

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Productive Work, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Play, Creating

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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