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People Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in…
- People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
- 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 well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
- There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
- Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America,
- When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people…
- 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…
- The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human…
- In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
- However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
- The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough…
- Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
- 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…
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