“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.” MenGivingMayMomentsPassionNextHouseForceForgetBehindsFireToo MuchDoorsDangerReturnGiving UpOvercomingFlamesNeglectedInferno Author:Carl Jung
“I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.” ThinkingWayGivingUsedTermDangerGiving UpCrisisThreatEnvironmentalTerroristEnvironmental Crisis Author:Naomi Klein
“If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.” IfsGivingSecurityDangerGiving UpLosing Author:Benjamin Franklin
“When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingFeelsYearsCountryHardUseTermJusticeTalkingVisionRichDangerGiving UpHundredChinaDevelopingFuelFossilsMarginsGet RichFossil FuelDeveloping CountriesInvulnerability Author:Bill McKibben
“Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.” GivingCoursesRealizingHurtTeachDangerPersonalityGiving UpThreatSaintShipsReputationTallCrewThreateningBountyLarger Than LifeCargoJust Give UpGot Hurt Author:Ray Stevenson
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force” GivingHappinessForceForgetBehindsToo MuchDangerReturnGiving UpNeglected Author:Carl Jung