Eric Hoffer Quotes

There Are Similarities Between Absolute Power And Absolute Faith: A Demand For Absolute Obedience, A Readiness To Attempt The Impossible, A Bias For Simple Solutionsto Cut The Knot Rather Than Unravel It, The Viewing Of Compromise As Surrender. Both Absolute Power And Absolute Faith Are Instruments Of Dehumanization. Hence, Absolute Faith Corrupts As Absolutely As Absolute Power.

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A Preoccupation With The Future Not Only Prevents Us From Seeing The Present As It Is But Often Prompts Us To Rearrange The Past.

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We Are More Ready To Try The Untried When What We Do Is Inconsequential. Hence The Fact That Many Inventions Had Their Birth As Toys.

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Rudeness Is The Weak Man’s Imitation Of Strength.

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It Is A Sign Of A Creeping Inner Death When We No Longer Can Praise The Living.

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There Is Probably An Element Of Malice In Our Readiness To Overestimate People – We Are, As It Were, Laying Up For Ourselves The Pleasure Of Later Cutting Them Down To Size.

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Our Great Weariness Comes From Work Not Done.

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We Can Remember Minutely And Precisely Only The Things Which Never Really Happened To Us.

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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 Nature Of Society Is Largely Determined By The Direction In Which Talent And Ambition Flow-By The Tilt Of The Social Landscape.

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The Opposite Of The Religious Fanatic Is Not The Fanatical Atheist But The Gentle Cynic Who Cares Not Whether There Is A God Or Not.

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It Is When Power Is Wedded To Chronic Fear That It Becomes Formidable.

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