Passive Cable Theory

Famous quotes containing the words passive, cable and/or theory:

    “It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men’s attitude toward women and women’s passive acceptance of this attitude.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    “To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
    —Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

    “... the first reason for psychology’s failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology’s failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.”
    —Naomi Weisstein (b. 1939)