The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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