"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly,……" — Eric Hoffer
"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
— Damon Hill
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort…
— Alexander Pope
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance…
— Robert Musil
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
— William Gaddis
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The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism,…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness,…
— Christian Wiman
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love…
— Rumi
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When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and…
— John Dryden
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We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one…
— Unknown Author
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of…
— Unknown Author
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Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its…
— Octavius Winslow
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