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Own Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind…
- 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 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…
- To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
- A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,
- 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…
- The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
- A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
- I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into…
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
- The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only…
- The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is…
- 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 is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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