We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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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
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
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The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.
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It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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