“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
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Quentin Crisp 66
writer, Actor 1908–1999Related quotes
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.”
Mr. Bush, Go Cheney Yourself! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/mr-bush-go-cheney-yours_b_6528.html.
“Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.”
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 83
“Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane.”
Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: I do not know in what shape the practical question may present itself to you; but I will tell you my rule in life, and I think you will find it a good one. Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can,—for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs,—and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably...
Stanza 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
"James Tobin - Biographical" (1981)
Context: For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
Dialogue with state prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky during his trial. Quote from Harpal Brar's Trotskyism or Leninism?, p. 300-1.