Quote by Eric Hoffer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dis

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer

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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. – Eric Hoffer

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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer

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Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra

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