To change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFERTo change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFERAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
ERIC HOFFERAll leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
ERIC HOFFERTo know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
ERIC HOFFERMass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
ERIC HOFFERThe greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFERIt is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFERAdd a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
ERIC HOFFERIt is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFERYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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 HOFFERCommunists are frustrated capitalists.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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.
ERIC HOFFERSelf-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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