The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERNowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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 change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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