Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
ERIC HOFFERTake 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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Nature 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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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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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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