Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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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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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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