It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFERThe greatest weariness comes from work not done.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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