Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFERNature 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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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