Clamor Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clamor Equality Excellence Matter
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“We can say all we want about equality, but we don't believe in it. We believe in superiority and inferiority. It's in our nature… — Lauren McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“We must choose to use our voice to say that equality should be a reality. For ALL people. We may not all be destined… — Trudy Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost, it can… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“We can be enthused by—yes, that’s right, enthused—by the noblest of ideals, but only on condition that we don’t have to expend any effort,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an… — James Tate Copy Share Image
To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage… — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image