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There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

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Eric Hoffer

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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