#lt

Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ... ↗

— Craig E. Johnson

#context #culture #small-groups #leadership

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #thule #leadership

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #life #tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #life

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#puns #life

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. ↗

— Cornel West

#loyalty #relationships #life

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. ↗

— Robert Altman

#enough #enough people #just #make #means

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #life #maturity #life

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need. ↗

— Heidi W. Durrow

#life #soul #women #life