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“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.”

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Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“I was very fortunate. I had a great group of friends in my life, and family, and so I felt a sense of safety and belonging that ... as you grow older, you realize that not everybody does feel that. And there's particular certain groups of kids who always feel like outsiders. But I was very fortunate.”

Feels Doe Kids Certain Grows Felt Realizing Groups Particular Safety Fortunate Belonging Outsiders Group Of Friends Life And Family

Author:Rib Hillis

“There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.”

Country Fighting Names Democracy Groups Organization Safety Environmental Labels Food Safety Great Organizations

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.”

Men Way Humans Kind Reality Able Space White Class Knowing Groups Share Middle Quiet Safe Members Safety Deeper Access Middle Class Privileged Marginalized Safe Space

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.”

Persons America Fighting Community Lines Responsibility Liberty Rights Groups Fronts Standing Safety Civil Rights Solidarity Isis Pulse Civil Liberties Muslim Community

Author:Van Jones

“For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.”

People Seems Groups Habit Concerned Safety Monarchs Uprising

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.”

People Giving Values Courses Individual Numbers Brain Opinion Groups Willing Giving Up Safety Mathematical Explanation Belonging Great Value Safety In Numbers Belonging To A Group

Book:Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

Source: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

“Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.”

People Needs Humans Ideas Individual Groups Security Creating Safety Belonging Collaboration Great Idea Human Needs Basic Human Needs

Author:John Sweeney

“Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.”

May Art Pain Suffering Individual Effort Company Support Risk Groups Harder Safety Psychological Dedicated Peers Avoided Breakdown Trustworthy Safety Net

Author:Mark Twight

“When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.”

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Author:E.C. Riegel

“Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient.”

Littles Long Interest Attitude Groups Economic Policy Concern Safety Remains Organized Elites Passive Obedient Representing Public Safety

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.”

Feelings Decision Pleasure Animal Groups Fine Shapes Goodness Survival Safety Blessed Instruments Decision Making Signals Cursed

Book:The male ego

Source: The male ego