Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFERTake away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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