Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
ERIC HOFFERWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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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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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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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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