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Eric Hoffer
“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142”
Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

Eric Hoffer
“They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually their innermost desire is for an end to the “free for all.” They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society. 29”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Michel de Montaigne
“When people ask why I go on my travels I usually reply that I know what I am escaping from but not what I am looking for. If they tell me that there may be just as little soundness among foreigners and that their morals may be no better than ours, I reply: first that would not be easy: Our wickedness has assumed many faces. Secondly, there is always gain in changing a bad condition for an uncertain one, and that the ills of others do not need to sting us as our own do.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Michel de Montaigne
“Now laws remain respected not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystical basis of their authority. They have no other. It serves them well, too. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing. No person commits crimes more grossly, widely or regularly than our laws. If anyone obeys them only when they are just, then he fails to obey them for just the reason he must!”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Eric Hoffer
“To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. 71”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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