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“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”

Men Looks Action Fighting Poor Danger He Man Ought Battle Criticism Function Stress Mere Critics Deeds Substitutes Indispensable Usefulness Subordinates Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”

Men He Man Function Army Every Man Frightened Ladders Subordinates Contemptuous

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”

“The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.”

Men Share He Man Conscience Function Entertaining Good Will Avant Garde Beatnik

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.”

Ifs Men He Man Function Connected Gift From God Appointments Discharge Donors

Author:George Bowen

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.”

Men Doe Whole Together Roles Taken He Man Concerned Function Males Substance God Image Christian Women

Author:Saint Augustine

“On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.”

Men May Hands Seems Pain Suffering Strong Can Do Pleasure He Man Equal Function Regard Attraction Pregnancy Submit Doomed Erotic Hesitation Dose Menstruation

Author:Princess Marie Bonaparte

“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.”

Men Today Psychology He Man Tools Function Manipulation Psychiatry Psychoanalysis

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.”

Ifs Men Real Philosophy Use Differences Principles Tree Conditions He Man Function Philosophical This Life Grass Adapted Basic Principles Tree Of Life Old Trees

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi