Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 1. A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of a ...
- 2. A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominate ...
- 3. A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
- 4. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
- 5. A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
- 6. A man by himself is in bad company.
- 7. A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often pro ...
- 8. A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym ...
- 9. A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self- ...
- 10. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- 11. Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
- 12. All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
- 13. An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth ...
- 14. Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
- 15. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
- 16. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the ...
- 17. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
- 18. Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
- 19. Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
- 20. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...