Quote by Eric Hoffer
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a

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

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. – Eric Hoffer

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Death
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

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Trust
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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Evolution
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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Miscellaneous

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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Miscellaneous

Self-pity is… a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. – Elizabeth Elliot

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Miscellaneous

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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Miscellaneous

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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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Presidents Day

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

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Truth

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. – Fidel Castro

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Men

Ill do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and Ive been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they cant hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught. – Alison Sweeney

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strength