You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFERPeople who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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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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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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