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 Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: Eric Hoffer on the Current Day Left |
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Just started reading this book and it is the first one for me to read by this author. In the first chapter called On Nature and Human Nature he has many short 'truisms' or what I would like to call Proverbs on steroids.
Think of what absolutes Conservatives hold dear such as compassion is good and murder is evil, whereas the left holds absolute the woman's right to 'choose'.
| Quote: | | Free men are aware of the imperfections inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, and so on are far from absolute, that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestations of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equality. |
Eric Hoffer, 'Between The Devil and the Dragon' p.11
Chew on this quote while watching the Left and in particular the treatment given in Alito's confirmation hearings.
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