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Readiness Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- 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…
- The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to…
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure…
More Readiness Quotes
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
- Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope
- The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness… — Sun Tzu
- Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick
- As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley