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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.

Eric Hoffer

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
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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Alone Country Easy History People
Unlike 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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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
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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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves

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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