Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERIt is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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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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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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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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 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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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