“It's not easy for me
To give away a secret —
It's not safe…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
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“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
— Aesop, book The Wolf and the Kid
The Wolf and the Kid.
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Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 398
“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
John Hancock (1737–1793) American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
Context: A well-disciplined militia is a safe, an honorable guard to a community like this, whose inhabitants are by nature brave, and are laudably tenacious of that freedom in which they were born. From a well-regulated militia we have nothing to fear; their interest is the same with that of the State. When a country is invaded, the militia are ready to appear in its defense; they march into the field with that fortitude which a consciousness of the justice of their cause inspires; they do not jeopard their lives for a master who considers them only as the instruments of his ambition, and whom they regard only as the daily dispenser of the scanty pittance of bread and water. No; they fight for their houses, their lands, for their wives, their children; for all who claim the tenderest names, and are held dearest in their hearts; they fight pro aris et focis, for their liberty, and for themselves, and for their God.
“How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!”
O vitae tuta facultas
pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum
intellecta deum!
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book V, line 527 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
Stanley A. McChrystal (1954) American general
Source: My Share Of The Task (2013), p. 394
Context: Self-discipline manifests itself in countless ways. In a leader I see it as doing those things that should be done, even when they are unpleasant, inconvenient, or dangerous; and refraining from those that shouldn't, even when they are pleasant, easy, or safe. That discipline that causes a young lieutenant to check soldier's feet for blisters or trench foot, will also carry him across a bullet-swept street to support a squad under pressure.