174 Quotes by Sebastian Junger

Disasters, he proposed, create a “community of sufferers” that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others.

As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.

At 19, your brain hasn’t finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don’t go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They’re facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they’re not ready for it.

It’s hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker.

Brotherhood has nothing to do with feelings; it has to do with how you define your relationship to others. It has to do with the rather profound decision to put the welfare of the group above your personal welfare. In such a system, feelings are meaningless. In such a system, who you are entirely depends on your willingness to surrender who you are.

According to the Times notice, Mr. Bauman called his employees into a meeting and asked them to accept a 10 percent reduction in salary so that he wouldn’t have to fire anyone. They all agreed. Then he quietly decided to give up his personal salary until his company was back on safe ground. The only reason his staff found out was because the company bookkeeper told them. Bauman.

Firemen don’t talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.