No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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 beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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