Erik H. Erikson (1902–1994) American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
"The Problem of Ego Identity" (1956), published in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 4:56-121
“Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”
Things to Come (1936)
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Justin Trudeau (1971) 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau
Statement on Twitter https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1258215247804018698 condemning acts of vandalism against communications infrastructure https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/05/06/trudeau-warns-of-severe-penalties-after-fourth-cellphone-tower-torched-in-quebec.html by conspiracy theorists during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, May 6, 2020
“People are only mean when they are threatened.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Men in authority are now a threatened minority.”
Ilana Mercer South African writer
“Bullied 'Jail Bus' Lady: Fearful Fatty, Not A Hero,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=657 WorldNetDaily.com, June 29, 2012. <br class="br">2010s, 2012
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in Julian Amery, Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign (London: Macmillan, 1969), p. 471.
1900s
Context: Free imports have destroyed this industry, at all events for the time, and it is not easy to recover an industry when it has once been lost... They have destroyed agriculture... Agriculture as the greatest of all trades and industries of this country has been practically destroyed. Sugar has gone, silk has gone, iron is threatened, wool is threatened, cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries, and the working men who depend upon them, are like sheep in a field. One by one they allow themselves to be led out to slaughter, and there is no combination, no apparent prevision of what is in store for the rest of them. Do you think, if you belong at present to a prosperous industry, that your industry will be allowed to continue? Do you think that the same causes which have destroyed some of our industries, and which are in the course of destroying others, will not be equally applicable to you when your turn comes?
Denis Healey (1917–2015) British Labour Party politician and Life peer
The Guardian (14 August 1981).
1980s
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
This is a threat to the independence and worth of the human personality, a threat to the meaning of human life.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Context: Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers.
One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.
Hugh Thompson, Jr. (1943–2006) United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War
In a 2004 interview with US News & World Report. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html <br class="br">Attributed
“If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson (1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2vg5cH004C, Ch. IX : War Clouds — 1860 - 1861, p. 141; This has sometimes been paraphrased as "War is the sum of all evils." Before Jackson's application of the term "The sum of all evils" to war, it had also been applied to slavery by abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay in The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay : Including Speeches and Addresses (1848), p. 445; to death by Georg Christian Knapp in Lectures on Christian Theology (1845), p. 404; and it had also been used, apparently in relation to arrogance in a translation of "Homily 24" in The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians (1839), p. 331 <!-- earliest use thus far found ~ Kalki 2008·01·21 --> <br class="br">Context: If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.