People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
ERIC HOFFERWhere 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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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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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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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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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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