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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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.
