Quotes Eric Hoffer

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its...

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time...

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed....

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor...

A man by himself is in bad company....

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful ...

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to r...

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbis...

Animals often strike us as passionate machines....

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, ha...

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective le...

Children are the keys of paradise....

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic be...

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is comp...

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of o...

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the random...

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a...

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice....

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different fro...

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem....

Facts are counterrevolutionary....

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitu...

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we...

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind...

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit t...