We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFERJesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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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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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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 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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