The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
ERIC HOFFERCommunists are frustrated capitalists.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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