“He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.”
Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3
“Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.”
— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
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"Speech to Danish working-class actors on the art of observation" [Rede an dänische Arbeiterschauspieler über die Kunst der Beobachtung] (1934), from The Messingkauf Poems, published in Versuche 14 (1955); trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, pp. 235-236
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“Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.”
Ha-Joon Chang book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Thing 5
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Vince Cable (1943) British Liberal Democrat politician
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Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 15: "The Unnaturalness Of Human Nature"
Context: One should see the dominant role of the weak in shaping man's fate not as a perversion of natural instincts and vital impulses, but as the starting point of the deviation which led man to break away from, and rise above, nature — not as degeneration but as the generation of a new order of creation.
The corruption inherent in absolute power derives from the fact that such power is never free from the tendency to turn man into a thing, and press him back into the matrix of nature from which he has risen. For the impulse of power is to turn every variable into a constant, and give to commands the inexorableness and relentlessness of laws of nature. Hence absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
“Thinking for Oneself,” H. Dirks, trans.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI
Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)
“He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
As quoted in Woody Guthrie: A Life (1981) by Joe Klein, p. 160
Context: Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people. Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit.