To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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