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Cannot Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
- We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
- More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot…
- The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
- The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not…
- Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
- We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
- The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In…
- No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
- We cannot hate those who we despise.
- The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
- There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
- We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word…
- 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…
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
More Cannot Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton