The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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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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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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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 only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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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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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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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 not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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