A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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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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 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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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