Language 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.
ERIC HOFFERUnlike 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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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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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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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