What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFERAll leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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