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.
ERIC HOFFERThe history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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