We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERThose who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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 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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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