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.
ERIC HOFFERJesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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