All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
ERIC HOFFERWe all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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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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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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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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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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