Hartley

“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy
friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...
deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,
a cooling fan of feathers.”
― Thomas Dekker, The guls horne-booke, 1609

“Bad systems” create “bad situations” create “bad apples” create “bad behaviors,” even in good people.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“But the frontier in this meaning was a process of becoming, not of being, and hence substituted motion for structure as its end. Motion as a substitute for structure is possible only so long as there is unlimited room to move in. When confined without the discipline provided by an ideal, such social motion produces aimlessness or chaos—or perhaps the final ordering of some utopia.”
― William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History