“The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.” IfsMenSelfReasonNationsCausesInterestChurchTroubleCapacityClaimsSpeciesDuesDrivenContraryDisasterDevotionConclusionUrgesExcessAggressionTribesPreservationSelf InterestSelf PreservationDetrimentalCredo Author:Arthur Koestler
“I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.” IfsNeedsBelieveUseTroubleCapacityRoundsMagazinesHuntsDeer Author:Bob Menendez
“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.” IfsKnowsMenMeanLongRunningPoliticalLyingCausesSoundTroubleCapitalismCapacitySalvationThreatFinancialCommunismLong RunsConvenienceInactionOrderlyDisturbance Book:The great crash, 1929 Source: The great crash, 1929
“I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.” WorldGivingHas BeensI CanActionOur LivesTroubleAtheismConditionsPeriodsShadowCapacityLaborResponsiblePositive AtheismSatisfiedTheologyHorizonSpheresSuperstitionsEarnestApprehensionGloomyRelievedUnknown Worlds Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.” PeopleMenRealFacesFormOrderLostStrongTakenTroubleConditionsKingsCapacityCastsIslandsTempestResemblanceReal Knowledge Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.” IfsTroubleCapacityAdversityHandleFormulasOvercoming AdversityFacing AdversityInspirational AdversityAdversity In Life Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.” ThinkingHas BeensMightFacesAsksGoalAnswersTroubleAchieveHumilitySonPerspectiveDaughterCapacityProfoundDisappointmentConvictionTemptationTriumphSatanCommandmentsSincerelyCheerfulnessGod ImageSon And DaughterCommandments Of God Author:Thomas S. Monson
“A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.” NeedsShouldHumansWinningEnergyUnderstandingTroubleHuman NatureCircumstancesCapacityDeterminationShould HaveProfoundAffectionCurrentsCommunicateCommandersRuthlessKnack Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.” HumansTroubleCapacitySpeciesDevotionExcessHuman SpeciesAggressiveness Author:Arthur Koestler
“Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.” FeelsHumansPowerTroubleFieldsCapacityHateful Author:H. H. Asquith