Join Favorite Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Stefan's read, .
We want to be ready to act in a crisis, but it’s hard to stay vigilant and keep an edge when nothing ever seems to happen that calls forth our abilities. The motivation to stay sharp atrophies, and we’re lulled into apathy and complacency. As a result, men’s standards, self-respect, discipline, and all-around hardihood get soft.
Idleness kills manliness.
Idleness Kills Manliness
Brett and Kate McKay
Zim said almost gently, „You’ve got it all wrong, son. There’s no such thing as a ‚dangerous weapon.’ „ „Huh? Sir?“ „There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
In the constrained vision, where man cannot directly create social results but only social processes, it is as characteristics of those processes that freedom, justice, power, and equality have significance.
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise