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Best People Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
- With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of…
- The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure…
- people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor…
- What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
- It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
- 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…
- The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
- If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or…
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
- It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
- Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing Gods work.
- Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we…
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle