Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
ERIC HOFFERI hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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