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Best Society Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
- Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who…
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
- The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
- The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
- To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down…
- The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
- The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his…
- Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
- What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far…
- 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…
- We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
- You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi