It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFERThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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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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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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