A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. – Eric Hoffer
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag