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.
ERIC HOFFERMass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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 misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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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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