“A few years ago, in the middle of the financial crisis, the artist and musician **Henry Rollins** managed to express this deeply human obligation better than millennia of religious doctrine ever have: **People are getting a little desperate. People might not show their best elements to you. You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone. To have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, a young person, to be heroic**.” ([Location 1986](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IX49OS4&location=1986)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[character]], [[personal-values]], [[resilience]], [[adversity]], [[conflict]], [[202308181107 — AtN — Staying calm within disagreements can be a superpower]], [[life-advice]] **Source** -- [[202409180132 - B - The Obstacle is the Way]]