"We do not usually look for allies when……" — Eric Hoffer
"We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed…
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We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.
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When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts,…
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
— George W. Bush
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
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What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and…
— Hillary Clinton
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
— Leonard Cohen
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is…
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