It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFERIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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