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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.

Eric Hoffer

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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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World

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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