To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him - Eric Hoffer

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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him

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About Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer (25 July 1902 – 21 May 1983) was an American writer on social and political philosophy. His first book, The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (1951) is widely recognized as a classic on mass-movements and the psychological roots of fanaticism. Despite rising to fame with the success and popularity of his writings, he continued to work as a longshoreman until retiring at age 65.

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من أين تأتي هذه الكراهية الغير منطقية و لماذا تتحول إلي عامل توحيد؟ إنها تعبير عن محاولة يائسة من جانبنا لإخفاء شعورنا بالنقص, أو بقلة أهميتنا, أو بالذنب, أو بأي عيوب أخري تنبع من داخلنا, يتحول احتقار النفس هنا لكراهية الآخرين, مع محاولة مستميتة لإخفاء هذا التحول.
حتي عندما يكون هناك ظلم, فإن كراهيتنا لا تنبع منه بقدر ما تنبع من إحساسنا بالفشل و العجز و الجبن, بعبارة أخري من احتقارنا انفسنا. عندما نشعر بالتفوق علي أعدائنا فإننا نعاملهم باحتقار و ربما بشئ من الشفقة لكننا لا نكرههم.
تتضح لنا الحقيقة التي تقول : إن الكراهية تنبع من احتقار النفس أكثر مما تنبع من الظلم عندما نتفحص العلاقة الحميمة بين الكراهية و تأنيب الضمير.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, ‘to be free from freedom.’ It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

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