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.
ERIC HOFFERThe history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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 creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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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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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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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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