Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
ERIC HOFFERWe are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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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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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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