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.
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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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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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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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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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