#act

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #carry #day #die #dying

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eruption #i #internationalism #last #marxist

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#become #educated people #export #ideas #infected

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#actions #control #enemy #head #inside

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#action #directly #dispense #marks #midwife

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#evil #often #power #promise #sense

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#afloat #arms #balance #bottom #flailing

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗