It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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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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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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