Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFERFair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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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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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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