Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERThe basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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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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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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