We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
ERIC HOFFERAll leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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