Famous Quotes / Eric Hoffer
188 Quotations by Eric Hoffer
- 81. People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...
- 82. People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- 83. Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, fro ...
- 84. Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not or ...
- 85. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring ...
- 86. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring ...
- 87. Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
- 88. Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- 89. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
- 90. Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
- 91. Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the p ...
- 92. Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
- 93. Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image ...
- 94. That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing ...
- 95. The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
- 96. The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.
- 97. The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind ...
- 98. The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not ...
- 99. The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b ...
- 100. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important ...