Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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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.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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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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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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