It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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 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.
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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 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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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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