"Moses wanted to turn a tribe of enslaved Hebrews into free men. You
would think that all he had to do was to gather the slaves and tell
them that they were free. But Moses knew better. He knew that the
transformation of slaves into free men was more difficult and painful
than the transformation of free men into slaves...Moses discovered that
no spectacle, no myth, no miracles could turn slaves into free men. It
cannot be done. So he led the slaves back into the desert, and waited
forty years until the slave generation died, and a new generation,
desert born and bred, was ready to enter the promised land." -Eric Hoffer, diary entry, May 20, 1959.
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“The
most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think
things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he
lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable...” -H.L. Mencken