What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
ERIC HOFFERFair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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