The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
ERIC HOFFEREric Hoffer Quotes
Awards:Presidential Medal of Freedom
Walk of life:American philosopher
Born:15 July 1902, United States
Died:21 May 1983, United States
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Nature 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.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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