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.
ERIC HOFFER
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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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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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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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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