"The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers,……" — Eric Hoffer
"The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor."
—
Eric Hoffer
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
-
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
-
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
-
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
-
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
-
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
-
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
-
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
-
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
-
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
-
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
-
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
See all 462 quotes by Eric Hoffer »
More Labor Quotes
This quote is filed under Labor Quotes,
one of 1,710 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
-
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
-
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
-
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
-
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
-
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to…
— Warren Beatty
-
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
— Max Beerbohm
-
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the…
— Carol Bellamy
-
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the…
— Grace Abbott
-
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to…
— Lewis Black
-
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
— Allan Bloom
See all 1,710 Labor Quotes »