Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFEROne of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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