We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERWe lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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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 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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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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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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