“It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.” — Paul Hoffman Honest Copy Share Image
The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor. — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That was a rhetorical question, one asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.” — Paul Hoffman Acids Copy Share Image
“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.” — Paul Hoffman Truth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest,… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Where have you come from boy?' He looked at her again. 'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for… — Paul Hoffman Marshall plan Copy Share Image
“Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.” — Paul Hoffman Anger Copy Share Image
“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger –… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at… — Paul Hoffman Animals Copy Share Image
“To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and… — Paul Hoffman Friendship Copy Share Image
“In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?" "You never can, my lord. Just as no… — Paul Hoffman Awareness Copy Share Image
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking… — Paul Hoffman Administration Copy Share Image
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor… — Paul Hoffman Administrator Copy Share Image
“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break.… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s… — paul hoffman Copy Share Image
“Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.” — Paul Hoffman Acids Copy Share Image
But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests. — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Nemá smysl zlobit se na někoho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
