Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFERLanguage was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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