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World Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the…
- Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
- The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
- When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people…
- It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and…
- A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and…
- I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into…
- The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
- Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
- 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…
- The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
- It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
- 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…
- Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- 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 quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the…
- How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
- 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…
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- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- 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 think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson