Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
ERIC HOFFER
Language was invented to ask questions.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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