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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself 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
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
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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
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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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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

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