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Ineffectual 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
- The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
- 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 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…
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- We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose… — Eric Hoffer
- Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day.… — Emile M. Cioran
- I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is… — Pepe Reina
- The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no… — Robert S. Mendelsohn
- He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac