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.
ERIC HOFFER
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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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