There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade;
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
― Obedience to Authority
― Obedience to Authority
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
― Obedience to Authority
― Obedience to Authority
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