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Century Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.…
- The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
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- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan