Eric Hoffer Quotes

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Eric Hoffer

Public, Private, Cures

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Child, Whatever

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

Society, Passion, Thought

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Lie, Ourselves, Loudest

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Destiny, Nation

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer

Change, Revolution, Around

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Alone, Evil

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

Themselves, Deceive, Propaganda

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

Down, Ourselves, Pleasure

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Nature, Creativity, Order

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer

Life, Give, Hatred

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer

Different, Become, Awareness

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Soul, Compassion, Remain

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer

Experience, Sinners, Stem

A man by himself is in bad company.
Eric Hoffer

Bad, Himself, Company

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Evil, Sense

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer

Teacher, Age, Time

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Heart, Win

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Thought, Others, Beginning

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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Best, Art, Living

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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Best, History, Game

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer

Free, Majority, Feels

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

Real, Wine, Idea

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

God, Stars, Sky

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer

Work, Greatest, Done

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25, 1902

Died: May 21, 1983

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