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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
— Eric Hoffer
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
— Eric Hoffer
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
— Eric Hoffer
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
— Eric Hoffer
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
— Eric Hoffer
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
— Eric Hoffer
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
— Eric Hoffer
No one has a right to happiness.
— Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
— Eric Hoffer
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
— Abram Hoffer
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
— Eric Hoffer
Those of little faith are of little hatred.
— Eric Hoffer
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
— Eric Hoffer
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
— Eric Hoffer
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
— Eric Hoffer
There is perhaps no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice.
— Eric Hoffer
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
— Eric Hoffer
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
— Eric Hoffer
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
— Eric Hoffer
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
— Eric Hoffer
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
— Eric Hoffer
Children are the keys of paradise.
— Eric Hoffer
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
— Eric Hoffer
We cannot hate those who we despise.
— Eric Hoffer
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
— Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
— Eric Hoffer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
— Eric Hoffer
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.
— Eric Hoffer
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
— Eric Hoffer
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
— Eric Hoffer
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
— Eric Hoffer
He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
— Eric Hoffer
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
— Eric Hoffer
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
— Eric Hoffer
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
— Eric Hoffer
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
— Eric Hoffer
Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.
— Eric Hoffer
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
— Eric Hoffer
It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
— Eric Hoffer
Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us
— Eric Hoffer
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
— Eric Hoffer
Nature attains perfection, but man never does.
— Eric Hoffer
Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
— Eric Hoffer
A man by himself is in bad company.
— Eric Hoffer
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
— Eric Hoffer
The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
— Eric Hoffer
To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.
— Eric Hoffer
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
— Eric Hoffer
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
— Christopher McDougall
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
— Eric Hoffer
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
— Eric Hoffer
