You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFER
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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 become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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The 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.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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