Eric Hoffer Quotes
- What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is…
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
- Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
- The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
- What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
- Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
- In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- 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…
- We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
- You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.