The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — 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
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America, — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Image
