The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric HofferMots clés disappointment
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
Eric HofferMots clés greed
Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric HofferMan staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
Eric HofferMots clés escapism
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
Eric HofferThe individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.
Eric HofferYou can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick.
A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric HofferMots clés society philosophy mankind understanding living-together
You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
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