All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
ERIC HOFFER
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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The 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.
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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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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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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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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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