Quote by Eric Hoffer
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are a

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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith
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We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

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Freedom
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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. – William O. Douglas

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The nail that stands out will be hammered down. – Japanese Proverb

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Protest

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. – André Maurois

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The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher

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