You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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