Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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