Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
ERIC HOFFERWhere freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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