When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
From Eric Hoffer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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