Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERYou can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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