To change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFERPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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