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.
ERIC HOFFERUnlike 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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 hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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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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