To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
