"There is always a chance that he who……" — Eric Hoffer
"There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper."
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids.…
— Kevin Bacon
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
— Philip James Bailey
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Muslims should live like brothers.
— Abu Bakr
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I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective…
— Roseanne Barr
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
— Charles Baudelaire
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