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“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”

Want Pleasure Situation Dangerous Danger Source Creatures Anxiety Destruction Originals Primaries Impulse Motive Destructive Living Creatures Will To Live Dangerous Situations

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.”

Thinking Dangerous Anxiety Make You Think

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

Ifs Stills Sometimes Seems Moral Study Progress Dangerous Development Anxiety Historical Endure Vanity Humankind Abyss Liberated Misconception Immorality

Book:Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

Source: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

“Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.”

Source: Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

Ifs Doe Ends Reason Sleep Struggle Dangerous Anxiety Utopia Classless Society

Book:Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

“Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.”

Feels May Life Is Enjoy Worry Dangerous Anxiety Enjoyment Enjoy Life Gloom

Author:Alain de Botton

“Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .”

Friendship Knowing Dangerous Danger Members Anxiety Anxious Closest Advisors Knowing Nothing Disheartening Dearest Friend

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime.”

Giving Looks Faces Cases Dangerous Expression Habit Anxiety Tyranny Nervous Wander Range Unconscious Your Face Smallest Offense Suggestions Tics Muttering Abnormality

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984