L.A. Rosenberg Quotes

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

Life drew me and I followed it.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.