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“You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.”

Truth Justice Security Danger Needed Speech Stress Utterance Sad Truth

Book:Forty Years on Main Street

Source: Forty Years on Main Street

“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

“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”

“The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.”

Ifs Should Years Two Passion Chance Week Danger Youth Exciting Stress Clean Fortune Smooth Arrows Two Weeks Outrageous Oysters Slim Carefree Exciting Life

Book:Consider the Oyster

Source: Consider the Oyster

“I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.”

People Thinking Wells Different Fiction Situation Known Violence Danger Stress Notion Range Behave Great Men

Author:Marge Piercy

“Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.”

Ifs May Inspiration Danger Serious Stress Absolutes Lays Errors Command Variety Fallen Mixing Purification Impurity

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.”

People Ifs Knows War Character Fire Danger Stress Males Extremity

Author:George Packer

“Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.”

“We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would be primal danger and stress.”

Ifs Soul Dream Would Be Past Answers Danger Stress Golden Excitement Suspects Primal Golden Days

Author:Robert Grudin

“They shared a fondness for barbed humor and skill at using it to defuse stress. Each recognized the other as a master of this dangerous game, producing mutual respect.”

Humor Danger Respect Stress Mutual

Book:Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

Source: Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth