Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERTo be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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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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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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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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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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