The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFERTake 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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 education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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 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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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