A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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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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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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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