Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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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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