It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
ERIC HOFFERThe future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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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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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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 by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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