Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFERChildren are the keys of paradise.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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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 by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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