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Less Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
- 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…
- It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,…
- Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
- The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
- In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
- The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
- It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
- Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less…
- The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,…
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis