Eric Hoffer Quotes
- Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
- Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of…
- Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
- Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
- To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
- A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
- The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
- The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant…
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.