Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
ERIC HOFFER
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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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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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Language 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.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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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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