"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ...Â Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Eye Quotes #Doors Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.366, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.”
“I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.”
“A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing”
“In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too”
“I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.”

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