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- The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
- To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
- The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
- The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
- The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is…
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that…
- The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the…
- A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is…
- 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,…
- Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
- ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all…
- To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they…
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