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.
ERIC HOFFERWhat monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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