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Some Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
- 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…
- The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes…
- The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a…
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
- 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…
- It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than…
- What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
- 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…
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- 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…
- To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
- The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
- What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
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