It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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