People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.