Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
ERIC HOFFERCommunists are frustrated capitalists.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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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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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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