"Those who see their lives as spoiled and……" — Eric Hoffer
"Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity."
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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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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum,…
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
— Eric Hoffer
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this…
— John Flavel
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is…
— Robert C. Murphy
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to…
— Seth Godin
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned,…
— James Madison
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is…
— Albert Einstein
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I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning…
— Kelly Cutrone
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