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.
ERIC HOFFERThere is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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