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All Quotes By Eric Hoffer.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from bec...
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the...
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and...
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, an...
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of contin...
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question....
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from se...
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitu...
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery...
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which ...
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often att...
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to r...
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminati...
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you ...
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But i...
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are fre...
There would be no society if living together depended upon u...
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk ...
Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not confor...
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imit...
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit ...
America is still the best country for the common man - white...
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know leas...
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's ...
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful liv...
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical a...
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inco...
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength....
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power....
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes f...