Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERThere is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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