Abraham Maslow quotes for UPSC

The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

The concept of the well-adjusted personality or of good adjustment sets a low ceiling upon the possibility for advancement and for growth. The cow, the slave, the robot may all be well adjusted.