Eric Hoffer quotes - page 10

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. (Eric Hoffer)
I am more and more convinced that taking life over-seriously is a frivolous thing. View quote
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The most important point is - and remains - not to take oneself seriously. View quote
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Fanatical orthodoxy is in all movements a late development. It comes when the movement is in full possession of power and can impose its faith by force as well as by persuasion. View quote
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The best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power. View quote
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The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter. View quote
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It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. View quote
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How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. View quote
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Absolute power achieves uniqueness by dehumanizing others. View quote
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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. View quote
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In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them. (Eric Hoffer)
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
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In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. View quote
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Freedom gives us a chance to realize our human and individual uniqueness. View quote
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I like half-truths of a certain kind - they are interesting and they stimulate. View quote
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What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. View quote
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We pay for it by losing all or many of the values we have set out to defend. View quote
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It is the individual only who is timeless. View quote
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Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. View quote
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. View quote
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This last faculty is one of the most essential and elusive. (Eric Hoffer)
In all my life I never competed for fortune, for a woman, or for fame. I learned to write in total isolation. View quote
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The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. View quote
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Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. View quote
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Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil. View quote
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