Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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