Quotes Eric Hoffer

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and...

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a ...

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spiri...

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty l...

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the bo...

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to ...

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength....

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can ...

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern wit...

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right...

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor...

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without ...

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with ...

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow ol...

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from bec...

The game of history is usually played by the best and the wo...

The greatest weariness comes from work not done....

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to...

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own e...

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk ...

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery...

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape...

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the fe...

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original ...

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a ha...