When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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