It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFERWe all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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