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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

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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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End Goodness Military Rise

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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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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