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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
- Eric Hoffer, More quotation on Enemies. |
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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."
- Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951. |
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
- Eric Hoffer. |
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
- Eric Hoffer. |
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
- Eric Hoffer, More quotation on Etiquette. |
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"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer, More quotation on Religion. |
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"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
- Eric Hoffer. |
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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
- Eric Hoffer. |
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"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954, More quotation on The Future. |
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"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954, More quotation on Power. |