When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer Quotes
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually […]
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
