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Pride Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
- 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…
- Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
- The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of…
- Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
More Pride Quotes
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams
- I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working… — Taylor Swift
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. — Walter Bagehot
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I… — Drew Barrymore