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Sense Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- 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…
- It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral…
- 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…
- The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
- Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly…
- Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's…
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
- 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…
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
- To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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