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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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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
