The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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