The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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