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“The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.”

Self Individual Dangerous Tendencies Assertive

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”

Desire Dangerous Habit Creatures Active Dues Flesh Lust Tendencies Temptation Flames Inaction Indolence Creatures Of Habit

Author:Sigrid Undset

“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.”

“I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.”

Long Hands Dangerous Particular Tendencies Significance Long Ago

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.”

“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.”

“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.”

Giving Christian Religious Results Influence Teaching Dangerous Importance Tendencies Curious Paganism

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.”

Way Needs Giving Real Hard Facts Reality Faces Order Dangerous Tendencies Inclination

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.”

Looks Said Sides Black Dangerous Defeat Disaster Tendencies Conclusion Upset Liable Very Depressed Stalingrad

Author:Erwin Rommel

“The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.”

Dangerous Errors Tendencies

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.”

Men Should Doe Use Shows Pain Law Purpose Force History Conditions Dangerous Morality Easier Protect Labor Property Painful Tendencies Collectives Evident Resorts Plunder

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.”

People Thinking Facts Today Dangerous Agree Tendencies

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.”

Stills Use Today Spirit Dangerous Terrible Capable Criticism Debate Tendencies Routine Dishes Washing Revolt Stew Lobotomy Washing Dishes

Author:Simone de Beauvoir