We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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