“At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.” IfsKnowsLittlesWholeHelpingUseGrowthKnow HowDoubtMankindDangerProduceMortalsConsumptionTechnological Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.” MenLooksHoursDoubtDangerAdversityMidst Book:Sensation and Sex Source: Sensation and Sex
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.” MenWayLifeWarMomentsEnergyDifficultHistoryDoubtMilitaryDangerDutyDifficultyAngerAdversitySalvationCurrentsAidsPhasesUncertainHistoricBattlefieldsAscent Book:Report to Greco Source: Report to Greco
“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.” LoveHandsLosesPleasureHalfDoubtDangerWillingFlowerLoversDifficultyMeritHuntersPerfume Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels
“[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.” IfsMenWayMayWarUseRunningLawFallDoubtDangerWillingArmsOughtBattleMy FriendsDifficultyFasterKneesNo DoubtAvoidingEscapingUnrighteousnessAvoiding Death Author:Socrates
“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.” IfsThinkingMenHardChoicesLove IsQualityBreakDoubtDangerGainsAdvantagePunishmentObligationLiarsLinksFearfulDreadGreedyRottenUngratefulFickleDeceiver Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.” PeopleWorldCountryMomentsFatherNationsCommonCitiesVirtueDoubtDangerRevolutionDepthWinterOutcomesFuture World Author:Barack Obama
“When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveFactsShowsMightLyingDesireBeliefQualityDoubtDangerousDangerDeceitRemoveDeceivingPretensionGood Quality Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable