Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
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If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
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Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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