Insecurity

(179 votes)   Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.

Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist

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(104 votes)   A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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