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Individual Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will…
- There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from…
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- 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…
- When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,…
- A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is…
- Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of…
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to…
- The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
- 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.…
- 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 individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
- It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's…
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- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield