All Eric Hoffer Quotes
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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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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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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.
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