It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
ERIC HOFFERPeople who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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