black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

Communists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFER

Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFER

Invention Language Talk
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
ERIC HOFFER

Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER

Death Deep Future Terrorism
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
ERIC HOFFER

Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFER

Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
ERIC HOFFER

Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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.
ERIC HOFFER

Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
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.
ERIC HOFFER

Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
ERIC HOFFER

Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
ERIC HOFFER

Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER

Greatness Work
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
ERIC HOFFER

Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Eric Hoffer Quotes