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Eric Hoffer Quotes

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half Picture Quote #1

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation Picture Quote #1

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot Picture Quote #1

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good Picture Quote #1

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation Picture Quote #1

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death Picture Quote #1

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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity Picture Quote #1

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America Picture Quote #1

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all powerful God who obeys his own laws Picture Quote #1

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration Picture Quote #1

It is not good for our efforts at self realization to know the opinions other people have of us. It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be ourselves if we are known Picture Quote #1

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food Picture Quote #1

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A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words Picture Quote #1

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion Picture Quote #1

Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints Picture Quote #1

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing Picture Quote #1

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life Picture Quote #1

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction Picture Quote #1

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A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men Picture Quote #1

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising Picture Quote #1

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding Picture Quote #1

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way Picture Quote #1

There is need for some kind of make believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on Earth or in heaven worth dying for Picture Quote #1

There is a time when the word eventually has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn Picture Quote #1

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Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have Picture Quote #1

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft Picture Quote #1

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence Picture Quote #1

We probably have a greater love for those we support than those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self interest Picture Quote #1

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility Picture Quote #1

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him Picture Quote #1

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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation (Eric Hoffer Quotes) When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity (Eric Hoffer Quotes) The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America (Eric Hoffer Quotes) To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all powerful God who obeys his own laws (Eric Hoffer Quotes) That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration (Eric Hoffer Quotes) It is not good for our efforts at self realization to know the opinions other people have of us. It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be ourselves if we are known (Eric Hoffer Quotes) By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food (Eric Hoffer Quotes) A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words (Eric Hoffer Quotes) We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing (Eric Hoffer Quotes) The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life (Eric Hoffer Quotes) The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction (Eric Hoffer Quotes) A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men (Eric Hoffer Quotes) We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding (Eric Hoffer Quotes) The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way (Eric Hoffer Quotes) There is need for some kind of make believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on Earth or in heaven worth dying for (Eric Hoffer Quotes) There is a time when the word eventually has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn (Eric Hoffer Quotes) Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have (Eric Hoffer Quotes) The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft (Eric Hoffer Quotes) We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence (Eric Hoffer Quotes) We probably have a greater love for those we support than those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self interest (Eric Hoffer Quotes) People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility (Eric Hoffer Quotes) To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him (Eric Hoffer Quotes)

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