"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps……" — Eric Hoffer
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
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Eric Hoffer
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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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More Deceive Quotes
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
— Bernard Baruch
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
— Casey Affleck
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
— Albert Camus
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be…
— Thomas Adams
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been…
— Abraham Flexner
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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