The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFERShould Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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