The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERIt is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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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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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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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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