When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFER
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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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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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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