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Eric Hoffer Quote: “The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The necessary has never been man’s top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man’s greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others – that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “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.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “We cannot hate those who we despise.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. The reason that the inferior elements of a nation can exert a marked influence on its course is that they are wholly without reverence toward the present. They see their lives and the present as spoiled beyond remedy and they are ready to waste and wreck both: hence their recklessness and their will to chaos and anarchy.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Nature attains perfection, but man never does.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “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.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “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.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is perhaps true that the criminal who embraces a holy cause is more ready to risk his life and go to extremes in its defense than people who are awed by the sanctity of life and property.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “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.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “People unfit for freedom – who cannot do much with it – are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a “have” type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a “have not” type of self.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were “the people,” and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one’s individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”
Eric Hoffer Quote: “It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.”
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