Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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