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.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
ERIC HOFFERFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERIt is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFERWhere freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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.
ERIC HOFFERIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFERUp 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.
ERIC HOFFERI hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
ERIC HOFFERLanguage was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERPower corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFERThe beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERNowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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