Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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