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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
