A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.
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Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
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Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
