Communists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFERI 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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