Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERThe hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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