I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
ERIC HOFFERPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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