We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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