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- Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty…
- A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of…
- That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
- You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- 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…
- We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
- 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…
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In…
- We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
- Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in…
- The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn…
- Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure…
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