Pride is a sense of worth derived from something that is not organically part of us, while self-esteem derives from the potentialities and achievements of the self.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.
~ Walter Kirn
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Life, of course, never gets anyone’s entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.
~ Janet Malcolm
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My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
~ Eric Hoffer
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There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses — without deliberately losing sight of America’s wise decisions, beneficent interventions and salutary policies.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
~ Anton Chekhov
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