Jacob McDonald

“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Estrangement from feelings makes it easier for men to lie because they are often in a trace state, utilizing survival strategies of asserting manhood that they learned as boys. This inability to connect with others carries with it an inability to assume responsibility for causing pain. This denial is most evident in cases where men seek to justify extreme violence toward those less powerful, usually women, by suggesting they are the ones who are really victimized by females. (Page 39)”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Indeed, that gives them more freedom in the realization of that work, just as becoming aware of the absurdity of life authorized them to plunge into it with every excess. All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. (Page 117)”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“The key is to surround everyone with his comrades. Tasks that must be done as a team help control the fear. (Page 33, Four Fs of Leadership)”
― Thomas Draude, The 4 F's of Leadership: Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom