Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
ERIC HOFFERThe quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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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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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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