Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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