We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERPeople who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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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.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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