Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he a... contemplative purely, he would not write.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that th...e majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must make the important distinction between the rebel and the revolutionary. One is in ineradicable opposition to the other. The... revolutionary seeks an external political change.... The origin of the term is the word revolve, literally meaning a turnover, as the revolution of a wheel. When the conditions under a given government are insufferable some groups may seek to break down that government in the conviction that any new form cannot but be better. Many revolutions, however, simply substitute one kind of government for another, the second no better than the first--which leaves the individual citizen, who has had to endure the inevitable anarchy between the two, worse off than before. Revolution may do more harm than good. The rebel ... seeks above all an internal change, a change in the attitudes, emotions, and outlook of the people to whom he is devoted. He often seems to be temperamentally unable to accept success and the ease it brings; he kicks against the pricks, and when one frontier is conquered, he soon becomes ill-at-ease and pushes on to the new frontier. He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense ...advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »