Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERMass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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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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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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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 easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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The 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.
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