We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER
Children are the keys of paradise.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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