Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFEREvery successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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