It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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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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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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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