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“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.”

Knows Humans Persons Moments Character Force Human Beings Ability Strength Human Nature Danger Behavior Decisive Moments Hidden Strength

Author:Stefan Zweig

“That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be expressed, what's okay, what's not okay. And I guess we do live in a place, and have for a long time, where there's more openness and there's more willingness to tolerate different kinds of behavior, but with that comes people creating other rules and other kinds of controls. It's always going to be a question of what's acceptable and what isn't and what's the danger point and what rouses people's contempt and what people are allowed to get away with.”

People Kind Long Different Danger Behavior Okay Get Away Willingness Openness Contempt Different Kinds Tolerate Not Okay

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.”

“a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.”

Humans Long Past Acting Danger Behavior Response Human Behavior Acting Out

Book:Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.”

People Thinking May Enough Justice Mistake Attitude Practice Danger Behavior Diversity Social Justice Vocabulary Positively

Book:To be equal

Source: To be equal