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“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.”

“Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.”

Mean Causes Healing Discipline Infinite Appearance Visible

Author:Tom Johnson

“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.”

“Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.”

Causes Party Policy Discipline Mass Organization Unity Tendencies Revolutionary Liberalism Collectives Apathy Strict Compact Cohesion Dissension

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.”

Thinking Causes Trouble Discipline Authority Management Resistance

Author:Hal Holbrook

“It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.”

Writing Art Pain Desire Causes Numbers Acting Adventure Discipline Affection Painful Enthusiasm

Author:Julia Cameron

“If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.”

Ifs Causes Return Habit Discipline Traits Again And Again Alas Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Louise Erdrich

“Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”

World Littles Made Would Be Fighting Courses Causes Lines Discipline Illusion Optimism Ultimate Changing The World Pockets Worthwhile Portions Drizzt Drizzt Do Urden

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

Death Dies Causes Failing Sacrifice Failure Discipline Philanthropy Great Sacrifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.”

“A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.”

Men Firsts Art War States Lost Force Causes Born Study Masters Arms Ought Discipline Losing Aim Contrary Ease Acquire Stations Neglect Sole Art Of War Select

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.”

Self Spiritual Suffering Dies Fall Causes Lord Alive Mystery Awareness Discipline Lips Self Discipline Everlasting Everlasting Life Mystery Of God

Author:Rumi

“To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.”