Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFER
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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