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Quotes of Eric Hoffer (Germany)1871-1962 British Poet
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. (living together)
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. (malice)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (imitation)
The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (mediocrity)
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. (influence)
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music. (music)
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. (literature)
Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. (intolerance)
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. (kindness)
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. (nature)
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. (passion)
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. (immigration)
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. (persuasion)
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. (story and story-tell)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (nationalities and na)
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. (power)
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. (negotiation)
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. (socializing and soci)
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (propaganda)
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. (persecution)
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. (salvation)
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. (misers and misery)
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. (suspicion)
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. (obvious)
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. (plays)
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