Communists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFERIt is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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