Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
ERIC HOFFERIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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 trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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