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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

—Eric Hoffer

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

—Herman Melville

In this day and age, when the increasing complexity of modern life leaves one barely any time for reading …

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

—Franz Fanon

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of a kingdom.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

—Emo Phillips

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion.

—Voltaire

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

—Eugene McCarthy

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

—Winston Churchill

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

—Jewish Proverb

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

—Noël Coward

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

—H. L. Mencken

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

—Epictetus

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

—Sartre

If one man says to thee ‘Thou art a donkey’, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

—The Talmud

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

—Cicero

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

—Mahatma Gandhi