We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFERNature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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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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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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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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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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