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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

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