The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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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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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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