Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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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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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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We 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.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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