We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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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 sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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