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.
ERIC HOFFERThe future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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