"Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.... We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?"

-- Eric Hoffer

#Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.68, Transaction Publishers
“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”

Source : John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.85, InterVarsity Press
“The price of purity is purists.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”
“It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.”
“You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.”
“I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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