Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
ERIC HOFFERAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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